I wrote this poem in February of 2023.

I give you the gift of my heart with everything in it
so please be careful with it
I donโt want it to be broken apart again
if you decide to leave on a whim
I wrote this poem in February of 2025.

With a fiery madness, she survived and made it out alive
tragedy after tragedy, diagnosis after diagnosis
she questioned how or why she did it
Many stood astonished at how she kept herself together
and composed even as her life and her body fell apart
but after a while it was easy for her to triumph
after every devastating plot twist
she was something else
a mixture of manic pixie girl and goddess
she was special
escribi este poema en febrero del 2023.

la desgracia me desgasta y casi me mata
porque amo en una forma inmensa y pura
y cuando el amor me abandona quiero morir
y digo, esta รบltima desgracia se siente como un terremoto catastrรณfico
y prefiero cortarme mis venas que sentir esto denuevo
I wrote this poem in February of 2025.

scattered memories of you and I are tossed into the bonfire
pictures, poems, and letters never sent burn and burn
and I watch understanding this is our closure
and our chapter is finally closed
and I needed the bonfire and a final curtain call
on an early February night to put us behind
I wrote this poem in February of 2023.

this is a dangerous road Iโm traveling on
smiling at your messages
Creating a playlist inspired by you
romanticizing every interaction we have
liking every single one of your posts
Wondering if youโre safe enough
To get to know you
beyond the walls of this simple friendship
I wrote this poem in February of 2025.

my pleas for love fall on the deaf ears of the universe
I scoff and get angry with her
Wondering whatโs left to heal
whatโs left for closure
whatโs wrong with me that I need to fix in order
to attract someone to love for the crazy, creative
and complex woman that I am
I wrote this poem in February of 2023.

middle age me is not seeking revenge on all who caused me trauma
Iโm simply trying to make sense of the fuckery that happened to me
Iโm simply trying to address the unhealed trauma that still lies
within me and haunts me in my dreams
Iโm trying to process and understand that I never deserved any of it
Iโm trying to get rid of that shame and guilt Iโve carried from it
and while sometimes that looks vindictive
Iโm sorry but the only way to my journey in healing work
is through uninhibited storytelling
I wrote this poem in February of 2025.

help her find hope after becoming the worst version of herself
after getting herself entangled with men who did nothing
but hurt her
help her find grace after the fall from the altar of love
men placed her on and she turned into a monster
who resembled medusa
help her find a path to enlightenment and purpose
after she once again drowns in waves
nostalgia and grief over what could have been
I wrote this poem of February of 2025.

one day Iโll meet a man who wonโt be afraid to take my hand
and declare his love for me in public
one day Iโll meet a man who wonโt have eyes for another body
other than mine
One day Iโll meet a man whose values aligns with mine
One day Iโll meet a man whoโs always looking for ways
to evolve and better himself
One day Iโll meet a man who wonโt run away from his emotions
and confront them head on even when it hurts
one day Iโll meet a man whoโll want to make me his
for the rest of his life without blinking an eye
and say Iโm one the best things thatโs ever happened to him
I wrote this poem in February of 2023.

Iโd never say I lost time with any of my love stories-
they all taught me something about myself
They all inspired me to write poetry
and two of them help me create my three kings
even if some of my love stories left me decimated
and almost destroyed me
they were all worthy for the love I felt
the growth and progress I had
I wrote this poem in February of 2025.

next valentineโs day I want to be calm especially if Iโm still alone
I want my nervous system to be ultra regulated and not the mess
it currently is
next valentineโs day I donโt want to entertain vengeful fantasies
of getting my baseball bat to scare couples in the middle
of their romantic dinner
Next valentineโs day I donโt to keep playing the role of bitter,jaded,
and lonely bitch who allows herself to become a wreck
at the mere mention of romantic love
Next valentineโs day Iโm rewriting the script of grief stricken lonely girl
and will make it a day that will reflect on all of the love I have in my life
I wrote this poem in February of 2023.

Iโve written dozens and dozens of poems about our story of lust and love
but today I found your purpose
with you I found inspiration and motivation to make myself better
hoping you could really love me
hoping you wouldnโt see me as just a sexual commodity
hoping to make myself worthy of you
and while now I see it was a delusion of mine
to do all of these things for your love
it still helped me to become better than before
it still brought me the resilience, strength and courage
to start living the life I always wanted to live
and plan the future I had always dreamed of
with you and after you-
I became the empowered woman I am today
and for that I thank you
I wrote this poem in February of 2025.

never set out to become a feminist but somehow ended up becoming everything
opposite of what I was taught a woman should be
in my young girlโs mind
a husband and children should have made me happy
even when I observed all of the women around drown in misery
always complaining about their husbands and kids
I thought that maybe with me, itโd be different
and when I found myself in my grown up conditioned woman narrative
I almost tried to die in that reality and knew it was never for me
and for a while I searched for answers in others until I looked within
and understood, i alone am magic
I alone without a man am really enough
and the only one responsible for my happiness and to make my dreams come true
all a man ever did was drag me down and made me feel like the dirt on his shoe
or like an ornament to take out at times for his convenience
and when I realized all of this
thatโs when I became an unintentional feminist, unapologetic and unashamed
to be the woman I always wanted to be but had been too afraid to embrace
until my middle age
I wrote this poem in February of 2023.

Iโm looking for the rhythm of a new heartbeat to fall in love with
A heartbeat that goes with the flow of my intense intimacy
A heartbeat who doesnโt call me angel or princess
only calls me by my name
a heartbeat whoโll fall in love with the real me
and not the idea they have of me
or the persona I play on social media
A heartbeat who can handle my crazy and chaos
A heartbeat who accepts and understands me
and never tries to change me