I wrote this poem in March of 2025.

hot summer nights on your porch
meant the world to me
and inspired an unusual amount of poems
Iβm starting to think that writing poems
is how I hold onto the magic of our memories
EscribΓ este poema en marzo de 2022.

Soy el escΓ‘ndalo de mi generaciΓ³n
marcho a mi ritmo propio desordenado
sin pensar quΓ© es lo correcto o moral
soy una mujer cachonda y alegre
que le gusta una variedad de amantes
porque la vida es demasiado corta
para seguir siendo una niΓ±a buena
soy una mujer caΓ³tica siempre actuando
sin pensamientos a las consecuencias
soy una mujer que ahora se arriesga
a vivir su vida con ganas y autenticidad
I wrote this poem in March of 2025.

in total darkness I fell for a while
for a year I didnβt listen to music
For a year I donβt remember being a mom
and while I still function and went to work
Several years later
I realize how I had forgotten all about
the darkness I had fallen in a while ago
my mind blocked it in an attempt to move on
in an attempt to heal
I wrote this in March of 2022.

When I was little, I was often lost in daydreams
about America
It was beautiful and blue
I pictured a celestial and warm ocean
where the waves tenderly touch my toes
I was taught it was a better existence than
the one we were living in
but no one told me that dreams sometimes
donβt come true
and the reality of America was filled with a hardness
that even 35 years later Iβm still processing
indentured servitude, exploitation, depression,
addiction,racism, mental illness were just a few side effects
of going for the American dream
I wrote this poem in March of 2021.

I donβt want to but have to be the boss
the boss of my family
the boss in my relationships
the boss of my life
it sucks to take charge and dominate all of the spaces
it sucks to have so many responsibilities thrust upon me
it sucks to always have to shrink myself for egos
it sucks to never be in a space where for once
I can be soft
I wrote this poem in March of 2025.

flickering ashes, among them, the brideβs dress
dreams of a family
dreams of a white picket fence all went up in smoke
jilted and pregnant
bride cries on the floor, waiting for the sentencing
from her parents
now that her lover jilted her
and couldnβt make an honest woman out of her
I wrote this poem in March of 2019.

Feeling hopeless in a cesspool of a world
That will never accept you
-for your skin color
-for your accent
-for your nationality
-for your religion or lack of one
-for your independent thought
Anything that doesnβt fit the image
of white and Christian is blasphemous
To be an βotherβ is to carry the weight of racism,
discrimination, xenophobia
All the phobias on your already burdened shoulders
So they try to kill us with actual guns Or
metaphorical ones of insults,rejections or looks of disgust.
I wrote this poem in February of 2023.

Iβm soldier of love
too lost battles for me to count and recount
how many times Iβve had to stitch my heart over and over again
from the many knives past lovers have stabbed me with
with the last one, I almost lost all hope for love
It made me lose my sanity and almost gave me PTSD
Still the romantic in me refused to die
and resurfaced this year
Told me, βthis time it will be different, this time you have self respect
and youβll be choosy over whoβs worthy of your love energyβ
I wrote this poem in February of 2023.

Yβall should have known better than to fuck with me
trying me on while I was still finding my footing as a woman
to lust after me because of my curves and pretty face
Never thinking my brain was still developing
Never weighing the consequences of how your selfish ways
would hurt me
Instead I was just fodder for your game of lust-
and you became inspiration for stories and poems about trauma
I still wonder who I would turned out to be-
if only you two would have left me alone
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 ΓΊltima desgracia se siente como un terremoto catastrΓ³fico
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.

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