canβt seem to get away from my demons no matter how fast i run, no matter how healed I claim to be they always haunt me in my dreams, or when Iβm at my most vulnerable and happy thinking life might finally be going right for me But out of the blue, my new boyfriend annoys me, unexpected bills show up, my stalker is back and creeping on my blog, and I fight with my teenage son I wonder what did I do to piss off the universe this time
some storms are worth the rainbows that come after them like the first steps taken after an invasive and life changing surgery like the victory dinner after the termination of a marriage that never should have happened like the first drive alone after beating a 15 year driving phobia like the child graduating at the top 10 percent of his class even though the odds were stacked against him like the rainbow child born after enduring the nightmare of losing one like still being here and writing a poem about storms and rainbows even though many times youβve been tempted by thanatos whispers to end it some storms are worth the rainbows that come after them because rainbows are hope, magic, and joy that make a life worth living
I never belonged to you or him I belong to the world, the universe and God I belong to myself, to my ancestors I belong to my words for better or worse I belong to poetry and prose
I keep trying to write my next chapter of love and find my next ex but this time itβs difficult and tricky since Iβm not desperate, Iβm not crazy and I have standards and I donβt automatically swipe right on 10 out of 10 face card, I really observe where they stand on important issues like will they make the main and only romantic protagonist in their life? will they fetichize me like Iβm some cute, sexy, and exotic little thing? are they the kind of person to cheer if anyone in my family gets deported so many things to ponder about as I try to find my next ex perhaps, Iβm overthinking this and should try to not be so picky then again, I know how quickly the romantic in me cling to someone the minute I feel chemistry, the minute they feel like home to me only for me to break apart catastrophically when it all comes crashing down nah, I canβt let that happen ever again so this time around, itβs best to be strategic and think logically to myself rule with my head instead of my heart
Faith found me one day and told me to keep going when I didnβt want to Faith made me believe in GOD when I wanted to fall into the abyss of depression Faith held me as I cried endless tears of my about my latest life’s catastrophe Faith loved me when I couldnβt love myself Faith brought me people who believed in me When I couldnβt believe in myself Faith decided to one day bring itβs accomplice HOPE
I blame my ADD, Mami and hypersensitivity for my poetic tendencies I never had the attention span or time to learn to play an instrument or paint instead at 15, I learned to write poems out of the shards in my heart left from a breakup after reading Becquer, and ever since then Itβs been an ongoing love affair with poetry one that is a refuge from the outside world, one that has been therapeutic when I felt the sky fall on me many times and while on most days I still suffer from imposter syndrome and donβt consider myself a real poet I donβt and wonβt ever let that deter me from processing the wonderful, terrible, and crazy things in my life through poetry
Hope lies in the next minute, the next hour, the next day,the next week Hope makes us believe there is something to look forward to even in our darkest hour Hope gives us the strength to continue on when we donβt want to
Iβve been called an exclamation mark before But I feel more like a question mark Because I always ask questions like: Why am I like this? How do I get rid of anxious thoughts? Where does my heart really reside? What is best for me? Who will love me?
a lot of us search for someone or something to complete us or make us feel like we are enough weβve been brainwashed by societyβs conditioning that weβre incomplete without a lover or without our career goals satisfied and this is really toxic and false narrative we need to stop believing in we should look instead for the amazing in the ordinary and appreciate how itβs a gift to just be human and exist
the sexual tension between me and ghosting everyone is insane
we lie to ourselves continuously about our needs to save face, to avoid conquering our fears to not feel insecure weβll tell ourselves we are better off alone and independent when in reality as humans we are meant to be social we are meant to share ourselves with others but itβs cooler to say, βIβm good with my solitude, Iβm my own best friendβ because deep down inside we donβt want to get hurt again
Listening to my writing playlist while high a lot of songs about men begging the women to come back Interesting It is a hidden fetish, fantasy I had a man continuously
suffering for me regretting the day they fumbled me
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
this is a dangerous road Iβm 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 youβre safe enough To get to know you beyond the walls of this simple friendship
Iβm 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 doesnβt call me angel or princess only calls me by my name a heartbeat whoβll 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