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Pyrrhic Victory

You’d scream at the kids
“It rots your brain!
          STOP with the electronics!”
And the kids would hate you
But they’d put the cell
Phones down

In bed on your phone
I left my laptop behind
Approached you
Sat beside you
“How about I leave my laptop
           You leave your phone
                         And we hold each other
                                         Maybe kiss a little?”

“No. I’m tired.” And you'd go back 
Into your phone

I don’t scream at the kids
I prep dinner for when 
They come back
And there’s a little hope in me
That maybe       Maybe     one day
You’ll comeback, too.

Copyright © Joseph Padron | Year Posted 2026


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Haunted

Death’s inside
Food is killing me     I think
The cure hates my guts

Last night      During the storm
I captured a photo of a lightning bolt
Shredding the sky apart
It tore a hole 
into the face of the Atlantic

And I understood
Felt
Whatever’s wrong inside
Is the way its meant
To be.

Copyright © Joseph Padron | Year Posted 2026

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