Dear future heartbroken me, Sometimes it won’t be you or even him Sometimes things don’t work out It’s nothing to be obsessed about Sometimes love isn’t enough It doesn’t mean you’re not enough Sometimes things end abruptly and it’s not the end of your story and sometimes you learn from it And most of the time it will serve to change your narrative
Thorny long stemmed burgundy red roses remind me of how I’m loved The beauty of the roses is how men admire me and fall for me the burgundy red reminds me of how my heart bleeds after they leave me and the sharp thorns stab my lungs as rejection and devastation sets in
thought I was done with this part of my life accepted solitude was now my new life but you had to smile at me butterflies appear and I want to vomit my heart races everytime you’re near And ugh, I fucking hate you for this so embarrassing at my age to crush on someone so hard and to write poems about a new unrequited love And I tried to ignore and quell this feeling but you have the audacity to appear in my dreams maybe it’s your fire energy, maybe it’s your poetry I’m not sure exactly what it is but fuck you for bringing out the romantic in me
Always has never been a friend of mine because of the many lies I associate with it I’ll always be here for you- I’ll always love you I’ll always be your friend so now I never believe people who say always Instead, I look at them with cynicism And tell them, “that’s nice but I don’t believe you”
hope appears in the leaves dancing on an almost spring day and I sit in stillness and silence wondering what it means Admiring the splendor of nature before me understanding how beauty is found in the ordinary
I used to want a lover who looked at me like I was magic now I want a lover who sees the real me and doesn’t leave someone who doesn’t scare easily when I cry in front of them and instead holds me and offers me kind words of solace someone who accepts that I’m both angel and devil and doesn’t hold it against me Someone who’s persistent enough to get through my emotional walls even when I’m closed off because of trauma this kind of lover won’t be ideal and will have his own set of issues but it’s the only kind I’ll accept from now Because lovers who have looked at me like I was magic quickly disappear when a strong wind of my insanity ruins me me for them and they say, “fuck me, I didn’t sign up for this”
this bitch has had more transformations than she cares to remember
My story is important to share, it’s important to write down but I don’t want to do it from a place of anger, revenge, or ego It’s strange to say this because for the past 5 years Anger has been my major inspiration and motivation to feed the narrative of how everyone has been a villain and I’ve been a victim It gave me a sense of martyrdom that allowed me to find peace for a while acting like everyone is a problem While I just flounder around being wronged And while I have so much compassion and love for this version of me It’s not who I want to continue to be It’s not how I want to be perceived because I’m more than being angry and vindictive I’m also kindness, goodness, empathy, and love And when I share my story-I need to remember these things
lately I try to be a bigger person but last night was different running into you when I’m at my hottest, when I embody the picture of an Incan goddess felt like sweet revenge, it felt like karma served to someone who made me feel small it felt like the universe smiled on me showing me once again how I am winning and that anyone who’s fucked with me will get what’s coming for them and while I did feel sad for you because of everything you went through I still felt like a queen, a goddess with confidence oozing from me compared to you who will never fit into the new me
I don’t want him to be a part of me- And yet he appears in my mind, my dreams, my poetry He doesn’t deserve any amount of space he comes to occupy in my life And within me -and yet he comes and stays I tell him to go away Stay away, and forget about me- But it never happens that way He consumes every bit of me and it’s a lost cause to get him out out of me
I wrote this poem in March of 2023. My reference is to Joe Goldberg from the show “YOU” and not Joe Biden( who is in his own right a monster as well.lol)
random thoughts from my 15 year old self
I sit around in horror- flagellating myself for comparing myself to a monster I know that this was the only way to cope and process with emotions that threatened to crush me but if I had to be honest with myself it makes me question the reality I was living in and maybe the psychotic who resided inside of me
Trapped in this self made prison- Trapped in what I thought was the American Dream /but in reality is the immigrant nightmare Trapped in my mom’s life Trapped under a heavy blanket of strength I continue to cloak myself in Trapped in a suburban hell of family and responsibilities Trapped because I wasn’t patient enough, wasn’t independent enough to build the life I truly wanted And instead settled for a mediocre one Trapped because of my fear of being lonely a fear that has chained me to a heavy present without any hope for the future
Sometimes I’m like fuck this healing journey can I just go back to the woman I used to be the woman who invited and welcome chaos in the woman who needed a man to make her feel complete the woman who bought into society’s conditioning about who she should be can I just be her for a day or two To get some perspective as to why this journey is so important to me