thousands of indigenous children never made, never born Fujimoriβs presumptuous superiority and cruel policies caused this inhumanity, this crime against the most marginalized the poorest robbing thousands of women of their right to procreate a shameful part of Peruβs history thousands of indigenous children mourned who were never planted, never had a chance to bloom perhaps their existence was a threat to those in power full of corruption, now weβre never know
la ira y furia de mis antepasados femeninas viven en mi ellas me visitan en sueΓ±os y me mandan mensajes que cuentan sus historias, sus verdades aunque duelan, aunque algunas me llamaran sΓ‘dica y dramΓ‘tica ellas me inquietan y me dicen es tiempo de gritar todas las injusticias y trastornos vividow que nuestras muertes no han sido en vano y aunque lloro y trato de ignorar la llamada de la sangre es inevitable-fui escogida- para sus venganzas, para sus historias de redenciΓ³n
canβt blend in with this privileged world wrong age, wrong last name, wrong ethnicity I stand destined for failure on this institutions steps as the pressure to succeeds hang around me like a noose around my neck and yet I still keep going and show up every day if only to teach my kids a lesson in how to keep going when you want to quit
for almost three years Iβve been waiting for the next guy to appear as some kind of hero, as some kind of reward for all of my effort Iβve put into myself and the life Iβve built Subconsciously I did this Even as I publicly roared about being empowered on my own I still wanted someone to be my sanctuary to lay my love in And I wrote, manifested, schemed, flirted got obsessed with men were just meant to be friends Thinking, gosh, if I hang on long enough, heβll come around this might work out but today I discovered the only hero for me is the woman in the mirror who still manages to get out of bed even on the bad days when sheβs too tired to function when sheβs exhausted by all of it
clavos sobre el ataΓΊd del futuro que querΓa ni un prΓncipe azul ni una casita propia y bonita en vez mirΓ³ fijamente al caΓ±Γ³n de la pobreza tratando de buscar algo brillo de lo que alguna fui entre mis mucho sueΓ±os olvidados
any idea or notion of romance is lost to me Iβve tried every which way to make myself appetizing edible for men to take interest in me, love me but the story always turns sour and Iβm tired of rejection followed by bouts of tears and insanity this spring I will not spend my energy trying to manifest another fool Iβll get obsessed about or get caught up in my head and daydreams this spring Iβm going to concentrate only on my potential thatβs yet to bloom Focus of the world of creativity that resides within waiting to get out
nail on the coffin on the future I wanted no prince charming no house with the white picket fence instead I stare down at the barrel of poverty trying to find a glimmer of who I used to be among my many forgotten dreams
last time I had my last first kiss it was wasted on a middle age scorpio I wore a cute summer dress with red lipstick along with my feminine charm I didnβt have to lay it on thick for him to desire me for him to want to kiss me he wouldβve fuck me I hadnβt been on my period his hands roamed almost every inch of my body as if it belong to him for the 5 minutes we made out while I dissociated and pretended I was somewhere else I was numb and devoid of feeling anything Am I even a person? He said things about how I was so hot and sexy and how sad it was that couldnβt screw me And I laughed flirtatiously following the script Iβve had since I could remember and I felt no desire or any pleasure if anything I was repulsed by him, by myself hating how even at 40, I was still pulling the same bullshit since I was 16 making myself an object of desire for me to play with and then something snapped in me that day a couple of hours after that date I sent him a snap along with all the other 7 dudes I was entertaining and keeping as options the same message, βIβm sorry, Iβm not in a place to date or even to have men as friends, I wish you the bestβ it was hard as I had always been addicted to menβs attention and validation but something told me it was time to switch the narrative even though I knew it would be lonely
era tiempo de convertimos en extraΓ±os y esta vez para siempre No habΓa mΓ‘s vueltas que dar o mas capΓtulos de nuestra historia que escribir Aceptar que ya nunca mΓ‘s seremos fue el favor mΓ‘s grande que nos hicimos Ojala que esta vez seamos extraΓ±os para siempre porque siendo algo mΓ‘s siempre nos causa un daΓ±o y conflicto interno Ojala que esta vez seamos como el fin del cuento que mi papΓ‘ me contaba cuando era niΓ±a, βColorin colorado nuestro cuento se ha acabadoβ
being with you was a form of self harm it was another symptom of my mental illness It was me living with my unhealed alcoholic daddy issues it was the worst version of me trying to find some kind of semblance of love to fill the void with whatever, even if that love looked toxic, brought out the worst in me, berated and assaulted me still stupidly I went back to you and accepted you in my life over and over again even with delusional daydreams in the back of my mind that if I kept you in my life long enough eventually youβd change and one day weβd get it right but all you ever did was disappoint me over and over again but this last undoing of us is the one and good riddance for that because at 43, iβm too fucking old to waste my time on fuck bois who canβt show an ounce of respect and dignity
my morality goes out the window when the madness appears itβs always a combo of impulsivity and hypersexuality longing for connection, longing for intimacy Longing to feel something other than the emptiness that lies within Itβs a temporary fix as I run away from my self made prison of stability
por un tiempo eras un rompecabezas siempre tan misterioso siempre tan cauteloso nunca hablastes acerca de tu pasado aunque yo compartΓ de mΓ‘s de mis trastornos y aunque me cansaba, seguΓ tratando porque mi mamΓ‘ no criΓ³ a un derrotista pero nada que hice trabajo nunca pudiste ser vulnerable conmigo