My reality check has your face and birthdate
Only you can ground me
Thanks for making bearable
this thing we call “existence”.
Color it cool
Keep me in and warm
Give me food for thought
Make it worth my while
Give me a word to say
To whisper your name or shout,
either way you say you are mine
You said it and you meant it
And I claim you like my Walgreens' coupons
Like my food stamps
I won't let you go
for I am angry and hungry and I came back for more
And you know I know
That I only exist in your Matrix
In your Neo world
You are the blue and the red pill
Forsake me and I disappear
Excitement without fear
The next most valuable thing in your life
Improbable alien light
Hell disguised or heaven sent
Far too complex for you to understand
So much so that I don't even care.
So what is next?
Maybe life?
Or something else?
Patience is not my strong suit anymore.
And here, time is sticky and dark, like molasses
Creeping down ever so slowly
Asphyxiating
Heaviness gathering like dust
One more unbearable minute,
(or perhaps, a year?) in silence
And senseless sweetness.
There is magic in seeing one's self in the eyes of someone who loves us, who believes in us.
There is power in stripping from the ego and tapping into my true self, recognizing my own potential
Trying to compress the air that I am breathing before it gets to my lungs, so it won’t hurt
Listening to “the silence” of the rain drops fall.
The wind moans. But at least cicadas and birds are not screaming again tonight. Like every other night.
Words hurt.
No truths, just hurtful phrases.
I see and I pretend not to see. Forgotten.
Lost in the quietness
of the rain.
Pez quiere comer pez que nada,
entonces pez vuela,
ave quiere comer pez que vuela,
entonces pez nada,
pez grande quiere comer,
ave quiere comer pez,
pequeño pez volador se sumerge,
pez grande intenta comer ave,
ave intenta comer pez,
pequeño pez volador escapa,
todos quieren comer a todos,
es una guerra allá afuera...
y también aquí adentro
del mar
salado.
If I ever get lost in the red mountains of the desert, don’t come trying to find me. For most certainly, death has found me first and I don’t want her to find you in this hot dry passage, don’t come find death. I don’t want you to see my shrunken, sunburnt, dead body lying down in this brown crystal tomb.
I know the desert is ungrateful. It’s a place that can curse you back if you but raise your tone at it in a fit of rage from thirst.
The heat of the desert is no place to be by yourself. It is best to stay in your home. It is best to forget the desert. Best to forget me.