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Hector Leyva Poem
If I had known better,
If only I had been a bit more clever.
If only, thats all that's left to say.
Still with the crazy ideas I play,
If only you would come back someday.
You left without saying a goodbye,
All that is left is a deep, saddened sigh.
If only I had been wiser in my decisions,
If only I had declared my love with precision.
I repeat the words "IF Only" over and over,
Hoping they'll bring me the luck of a clover.
If only I had been there when you needed me,
Then laying here with me you would still be.
Copyright © Hector Leyva | Year Posted 2011
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Different people,
Different races.
Different customs,
Different faces.
One world with many,
Many races, one species.
Differences are plenty,
But only seen by dummies.
Differences make us unique,
Yet we are the same.
Each other we critique,
Based on differnces in physique.
Snowflakes are beautiful,
But yet no two are the same.
For our differces we should be greatful,
For hate and racism we should feel shame.
Copyright © Hector Leyva | Year Posted 2011
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Tears of love, tears of hate.
Tears all caused by inevitable fate.
They gingerly roll down my face,
Announcing to all my failures and disgrace.
Tears accompanied with unforgiving pain,
Both do rapidly my spirit drain.
I drown in my own tears,
The fall is steep and the ground is near.
Tears exposing my weaknesses to all,
Salty liquid surrounding my steepest fall.
Yet I know one thing for certain,
When I end, so will the burden.
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Love stories, princesses, knights,
Mideaval nonsense and there funny tights.
Dragons, castles and magic,
Everything has a happy ending, never tragic.
Love at first sight, a kiss,
A happy forever-after, total bliss.
One single kiss saving a life,
A beautiful princess becoming one's wife.
A horse ridden into the sunset,
Carrying a couple who has just met.
Beautiful fairy tales I believed to be fiction,
Non-existent and in danger of extinction.
Now, a pair of eyes hypnotize me instantly,
Cherry red lips drive me to the point of insanity.
Her very voice is echoed in my thoughts,
A simple fairy tale, no danger, no plots.
Copyright © Hector Leyva | Year Posted 2013
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Hector Leyva Poem
Human nature is destructive,
But also very instructive.
You learn what you want from it,
You choose the path you wish to knit.
See the destruction around you,
Let that nature never dwell within you.
We are but microbes in a vast universe,
Thinking we move forward while in reverse.
We are specks of life pretending to rule,
Thinking of ourselves as a precious jewel.
Pretentious and destructive is our nature,
Destroying both our present and future.
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The pillar stood strong,
Cemented to the solid ground.
Stanting it sang a silent song,
Speaking of the way it was bound.
" To this roof, to this floor,
My days forever given to these two."
But the pillard wanted of this no more,
Its freedom it decided to pursue.
Letting go of one would mean destruction,
But it was a price worth paying.
Being the only availabe conjunction,
Yet desperately for freedom praying.
It stepped aside and let the floor fall,
As it did so it shattered into tiny pieces.
The pillar stood silent but tall,
From it's burden it had finally had a recess.
The happiness was short-lived,
He had no purpose in life anymore.
The roof he had purposely out-lived,
Feeling empty, he tipped over and broke.
The mighty pillar was no more.
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I'm the voice you don't hear,
I'm the one which you needlessly fear.
I'm the person out on the fields,
I'm the one the law no longer shields.
I'm the one you pay less than minimum wage,
I'm the one that without reason is cause of your rage.
I'm the one you profoundly hate,
I'm the one you love to humiliate.
I'm the migrant worker searching for a better life,
I'm the one whose life you're taking with your political knife.
I'm the exception to human rights,
I'm the dog you dare beat, but condemn his bytes.
I'm the one you seek to exterminate from your land,
Yet you forget this was mine before it was taken by your hand.
I'm the one you call a criminal simply for working,
I'm the one whose family you are persistent in destroying.
I'm only a man pursuing happiness,
I'm the one you insist on leaving homeless.
I'm the one whose path to misery you'd love to pave,
I'm no more than your modern-day slave.
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When Love ends there is nothing left,
Your heart is taken by a sudden theft.
When love ends the flowers don't bloom,
The Utopia that was your world spirals into doom.
No one realizes they are made of glass,
Or that they aren't golden but made of brass.
Reality sets in with the sudden blow of heartbreak,
It is then we realize a flesh heart can also break.'
With every passing second there is a voice calling,
It is the voice of the person that existed before there was nothing.
The empty shell of the fruit is all that remains,
Trying to revive itself in a world of ongoing rains.
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I wish I could unload the pain,
Unload then go completely insane.
Walk under the sunlight with a smile,
Not walking in the dark with every mile.
I wish the tears would stop rolling,
But it's like telling a cloud to stop raining.
One day get up and look upon a bright day,
Glance up at the sky and it be blue and not gray.
I wish the sadness would turn to glee,
But it's like asking vinegar honey to be.
Maybe that day will come without announcing itself,
Saving me from this life, Saving me from myself.
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Here without you,
Yet I can still feel you.
Your aroma fills the air,
Your absence I can no longer bear.
Your laughter echos in my mind,
My eyes without your sight are blind.
My life passes day by day,
I sit here and for your return I pray.
There's no life without you,
How to live now I have no clue.
I am only a shell of the person I was,
Without you I have no purpose, no cause.
Your memories invade my dreams,
I wake up at night with sweat and screams.
Screams of anger for your departure,
WIthout you my world has become darker.
Copyright © Hector Leyva | Year Posted 2011
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