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Unrequited

Unrequited

The things i think about,
never settle below
they float instead
and fester inside
as I pluck your name in the air
a sacred memory folds over
foaming layers, floating vapors
Creating a chill and then a stupor
the last draw of my breath
I slipped again, I stripped
you tripped in the end
Even if you stay in your lane
But you’re driving insane
so much distance between two cars
its impossible to hear
Muffled by the wind, carried away the fear
I tried to speak, but the sound
Never carried over
It rises an ache in my throat
nerves are calmed, noise is stifled
legs are stiffened, feet planted
hands firmly gripped
elbows abutted
in a world prone to forget
my memory stays etched
in your fractured mind
my taste stayed on the lips
of the one I've left behind
a fleeting moment
Betrayed by lust unveiled the trust
between the blinks of my eye
You remain a distant memory
The pain has abated
the speed is indeed fleeting
Forgotten with the past
in the throes between two fires
the faded lines, the dying embers
Looms over like the sun
So I say, you cannot stay
Isn’t that off-putting?
A broken soul
With a spirit so agile
My body so fragile,
with just one touch,
you peel my layers
like the sprouting weeds
between the pavement
the truth wants to be known
My touch so brief,
and yet it lingered
Overstayed its welcome
And in the horizon
It stretched, it lagged on
And with your imagination
My skin rubbed raw,
My voice cracked, I cringed
I become unhinged
My heart will always be disquieted
Your love forever unrequited

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Tempestuous Storm

Time and tide again waits for no man
tempest-tossed upon life’s billow
The hull or the dinghy
Serves as a fortress
Though steady on its keel
Knocked his wits and sense
As he vacillates between levity and despair
Caused by his unbridled folly
He rakes the moon from out of the sea
A gust of air blew
It tethered him to flee
All you see is overcast
Knots, tiller, hatch, or helm
Love’s killer patch, overwhelm
Derelict in a sense
A castaway float astray
Break the resolve
Of a man who once vowed
to never sail again
But the songs of the nymphs
Was beckoning him
Is there something alluring 
or is he just lonely?
Can't find comfort in the stillness
With every beating on the mast
Fate on the tide
Because not once, not twice
But several times 
he almost drowned
He was lost at sea
His curse muffled 
No stir in the air
He was peeled
And like the tales of sailormen,
She suddenly appeared
Like white foam 
She ribboned the blue sky
The clouds drifts idly
As if they haven’t heard
Not a stirring breeze
But her ravenous rage
Devoured him
With rapacious eagerness
Lapping at his ballast
A violent wind is no match
To a careless sail man
in the middle of a stormy sea 
He tasted the saltiness 
And remembered the breath of his past
As he found himself washed ashore
He was saved at last
But he was looking for more
Despite the warning from the weather lore
And like the wind,
She whips a howling dance
As sea and sky make love
She could not calm her frenetic ire
It stirred something in him
It hit him like a squall
Once again he takes the plunge
Stupid as he is
To find himself once again
Sailing in the storm
Amidst the  tempestuous sea
Evening gray and morning red
He could only wish he was dead.
All hands on deck
And as he chants 
Red sky in the morning
Serves as warning
Red sky at night sailors delight
Her crimson lips parted
As she said,
"Evening red and morning gray, 
help the traveler on his way. 
Evening gray and morning red 
bring down my wrath upon his head".

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Trompe L'oiel


Trompe L'oeil
I use to be so sure of my colors
But now my vision is jaded
Perhaps it is obscured
from the THOUSANDS of tears I've shed

I taught you
the primary colors, RED, YELLOW, and BLUE
The shades of red are scarlet,
magenta, crimson, cerise, and claret
your favorite lipstick,
I will never forget
RED, the color of love 
of laughter,
and lust thereafter
an upturned smile, a glass of wine?
a touch of mine, or love divine.
Now RED envelops me,
with frustration and anger
splash of danger.
unspeakable disgust.

YELLOW, the scorching sun
pales in comparison
with your presence so indelible,
your mind impeccable.
YELLOW makes me think
of your frail lifeless body
as your last breath escaped.

BLUE is the hue
of countless summer skies, 
the bed where dreams are made of 
shining stars lie
the beach waves, the ocean tide
you were by my side
Now BLUE, the flame
runs through my veins
hottest temperature a fire could be
unceasing storm, inside of me.

GREEN the color of the grass,
illuminated by the morning dew
path of trees, 
just you and 
right or left?
Did it matter? we're together.
GREEN  eyes of the monster
committed theft
when he stole your bright todays
and hopeful tomorrows
 Is GREEN is the color of envy?
a side of you they paint,
your memory they taint.
To change the tint,
you put a little bit of that
and a little bit of black.

ORANGE the melting popsicle
cooled us in the heat
chubby cat, circles your feet
Now, molten lava
bursting in flames
warmed me with rage.

Can you paint intangible things, fractured views?
injustice, indifference?
What are their hues?
Is lack-luster a color?
What shades of blatant neglect?
unrequited love, of sheer regret?
The palette of the darkest hour,
Did it feel like forever?

Is taupe the backdrop?
For a system that's corrupt
Things staged,
relationships strained
Is ECRU, greener or paler?
than chamois or old ivory?
unbleached truth
distant memory.
Are rich colors purple, 
emerald or burgundy?
Not for you and me

BLACK scream sophistication
Now endless anticipation
black dress daunting
memory that is haunting
hole in the dark?
cry of a lark?

WHITE, an empty canvas
 lonely easel,  motionless brush
Hopefully the path you see
Wherever you are, there's me

I close my eyes and think of you
HUNDREDS of still photographs flash 
of sepia, pale blue
I pray you walk the road without shadows
a path made of rainbows
where birds sing you home 
you are not sad or alone.
As for me, I'll paint your memories
with MILLION shades of LOVE.

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Shatterer of Worlds

Shatterer of Worlds



Good morning saboteur of words
What is it today, what is it today now?
Fatman or little boy?
Bubble girl and Busy lobster
Seems so distant now
lead us all astray somehow
It sounds shielded and protected
Cluster pearl, hawk and chase
Doesn’t sound nearly as destructive

Author of code names
What’s it  gonna be 
what’s it gonna be now?
Am I divine strake 
Would my life will be at stake 
Experiment canceled
Who could forget about the trinity test?
The life you’ve messed
Of course they’re not planned

Caused disarray come what may
Are they randomly chosen?
Who’s heart will be broken?
How I've held onto somehow
Doesn’t it surprise you now?


Goodnight shatterer of worlds
This might sound absurd
Who’s it gonna be, who’s it gonna be now?
It won’t be me again
I made that clear in the end.
Picking up the pieces that you’ve left
Put my bullet vest
To the test 
If I see you
Iron-clad this time,
I'm brand new.

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Eden

Eden

Say half-spoken truths,
Utter well-meaning lies 
Why does it matter?  
You will believe it
That I’m not Eden

Bid reluctant farewells
Whisper unwilling goodbyes 
What’s the difference? 
You’d take me in a heartbeat
Even if I’m not Eden

But Adam, it's no disguise
Not  a big surprise
I’m not your paradise
I’m no heathen,
But with me, 
it's more Gethsemane
You’ll never be in Eden

Remembering to forget
Forgetting to Remember
Is it in that order?
But you're still not in Eden

A love so tender
That started from May 'till December
Trapped from now until forever
Would I really surrender?
Even if I’m not Eden

Feelings of despise
Despising a feeling, 
Is it just the beginning?
How can time mend,
Will it ever end?
Your delusion,
that I will never be your Eden.

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Scorched and Singed

Yesterday
 I cried  my heart out
For I wept tears of glass
To lay a path for you to walk on
Barefoot on the hot pavement
naked as I bleed
In the hopes that you won’t taste my fear
Teeming with anger and hatred
As I stood with a clenched fist.
hot coals in my palm 
Ready to unfurl
Shoulders hunched, grasping at embers.  
My hands exposed me.


Today
I write with the temperament
Of a subdued bull
As you taunt and prod 
Waiting for me to charge
my heart aflame like molten lava
My eyes burning with fire
Shooting darts of laser beams
My lips are parted 
but no words escaped
My voice betrayed me.


Tomorrow
I will walk in splendor 
Of a thousands suns
Simultaneously rising
In dazzling radiance
I will set the heavens ablaze
And you will be drawn
Just like a moth to a flame
Not looking back, not asking why
Your eyes deceived you
For my heat no longer warms
Instead it burns
Not the kind that engulfs and consumes
But the one that cauterizes and effaces
Like butter on blow torch
Your perception beguiled you

For I am Venus
As you watch me lay motionless
you wonder what goes up and down
but does not move? My temperature.
As I bask in my ring of fire
Feel my scorching heat
As I exact my revenge
and singe your wings of desire
It is too late,
I show no mercy 
As my soul deserted me.

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Runs Out with Fate

Fast steady steps but not sure where to go
Strong sturdy arms but ready to give in
Warm playful gaze with a hue of sadness
A cursing tongue 
capable of sweet innocent promises
Wrap me in your arms
Hide me in your smile
But baby don’t drag me for a mile
Fill me, consummate my soul
A touch that could burn
A look of yearn
Words that could calm my spirit
An embrace that shields me
A smell that rubs off 
A presence that could linger
A face that could show me the world
A being that makes life unfold before me


I wish i could be the one 
Who could be with you when you are afraid
Placate your fears
Chase the dark shadows of your past
Close your wounds
Heal your scars
I want to be the one to te tell you that 
Snowflakes do not taste good
That flowers do bloom in the spring
And that splinters hurt
I just want to be there for you 
Make sure that your everything is going to be alright
I want to make you believe
That true love exists
I want to smother you with feathery kisses
If i can't hug you long enough
 tell you I love you too often
Know that I believe in us together
Even if it can’t be all that
I have given you the rarest opportunity
To allow you to see my own beauty
All the reasons i have in me 
My qualms, realms, pent up emotions
New perspective and even my uncertainties
You have reached that special part of me
Where you  could hear my heart flutter
Listen to me when i say nothing a
But i mean something
When you could thrust me deep
In the night sky’s feverish theme
In return you have share with me
A place where we can confront our needs 
dreams and unspoken fears
The storehouse of our hope that encompasses
The essence of who we truly are
But when i see a furrow in your brow
A glitch of sadness in those eyes 
Or hear you curse and yell
Sense anger in your voice
I shudder with fear but somehow
 make myself strong enough
So i could run and hold you
 rock you gently 
Say it's okay baby
In your world where everybody hates 
a happy ending story
Let me be the one to say forever and ever 
before the end
I hope time will not come when my dawn will break
Giving light to your mind that we are meant
But this time with you is not wasted in sorrow
But spent in smiles
Despite the future’s call
My case i now rest my heart i now give
Myself i surrender before my time slips 
And runs out with fate.

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Charlotte

Charlotte

You were smiling at me
As you were looking right 
Through him
Or were you 
Looking right through me
As you were smiling at him?
False subtleties 
From dew to dust
From dawn to dusk
All the things that you have to weave
I’m sure didn’t mean to deceive
Well I never really had a doubt
After all the things I found out
I can’t get out
Charlotte
Too caught up in the web you wove
In the lies you told
Head first for you I really dove
The web you spun
Right here where it all began
As I sing along
The cricket’s song
Just as I realized
Summertime can’t last forever
AsI  hang onto something 
a little tighter
I wondered if I
Should  hold on to nothing
A little bit longer?
Your hourglass body
The bristly patch I crave
Too many things on my mind
So many past better left behind
That also told my woes to you
That is all I can do
No one can ever take your place 
In my heart
Blood thirsty 
Looking pretty 
That’s all you do
Charlotte
I’d still like to believe 
That you really 
Didn't mean to deceive.