Love Introduced
The sun is caught
Somewhere between your teeth
It must be
When you smile
Cherry blossoms bloom
And rose petals sprout
If not on the ground,
Then at the very least in my stomach
When your eyes crinkle towards me,
The world is still and the sky is gentle
And the lone sound is your soft breathing
You break down the ancient walls in my chest
You make me believe
That someone can be worth
Every teardrop of a million
You remind me that love
Was meant to bring two people together
And keep them
For once in my life, I know
Looking into the coffee swirls of your eyes
And tracing the lines of your palms
Like an endless railroad I could go circles in
That this is how I want to wake up
My entire life
Your arm flung lazily around me,
Your breath lightly caressing my ear
Let’s spend our years, each and every single one of them,
Answering the questions written in the scars from our past,
Swimming hand-in-hand through the uncertainties of tomorrow
You are a choice all too easy to make,
And one I will always be thankful I’ve made
The sun is caught
Somewhere between your teeth
It must be
Because when you smile
So do I
Apolinaria
Woman,
You walk through flames
And make them look like roses
Does your name stand for strength
Or is it beauty
I should assume both
I walk strong only because
I follow in your tracks
I smile bright only because
Your light reaches me
From across the city
You were never a single mother
Just a mom and dad
Rolled in one.
A Long and Short Wait
Seeping through the curtains
Rays of light crawl past the cloth
Little-by-little the darkness shies away
From the corners of my room
There I am
Witness to the guard change
Between the moon and the sun
There are no shifts for the restless
My eyes continue their romance with the ceiling
But my mind has long departed from here
It has spent the night searching the great unknown
In hopes of finding wherever it is
My heart ran off to
Somewhere that I know most
There you are
The hands of time point to you
You, bathing in the river
Where love fought for and love lived for
Flow into
There you are, in the middle of the streams
Drenched in the memories
Our scars were born to create
There you are
Years of smiles and plastered onto your skin
Years of sleepless nights written on your eyelids
There you are
Bruised and puffy-eyed
Still determined
Somewhere that I know least
There is you
These fingertips have long forgotten
The rosy petals of poetry
Until they met the lines resting on your palm
Every word you speak
Speaks into existence
Cadence somewhere between my ribs
Echoing a rhythm long forgotten
Yet entirely new and
inviting
Time asks me
if I am losing my mind
Reason tells me to turn back
Logic whispers quick in my ear
But the wind howls loudly into my ear
Towards the edge of the rye
There you are
Beyond the perceivable present
Past the familiar green
There you are
Standing in the abyss
of things I’ve never known
There you are
Doe eyed
Sun-kissed
Easy to love
The sun now blazes through my curtains
Light shoos away the dark
And it has retreated
Into my mind
Forcing my eyes to embrace darkness
Even in the light of day
I find my last thought to be
That my heart has not come home
