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Rafael Melendez Sep 2020
I've began to wonder if I've asked too much from you, from the ones before you.
My family thinks I'm strong.
But I'm nothing without any of you. I have become nothing through all of you.
Nonexistence in the nooks and crannies of your hearts and souls.
I make you happy though, right?
And so, I leech off of your happiness.. therefore, I'm happy.
Still, the child in my dreams tells me I am undeserving of your love, I am undeserving of the love I've received in the past, I'm selfish, and I have no one to blame but myself for losing sight of who I am, and who I wanted to be when I was innocent.
You deserve something better than nonexistence, you deserve existence and everything that comes after.

But how can I do it?

How can I?

Can I do it..?


Please, God.. tell me I can.
Rafael Melendez Sep 2020
I'm afraid in your search for god I'll only make the distance grow.
My mind is open to yours, the gates have been flooded.
I want you to be happy,
though, I don't know if I'm what's best for you, or your lord.
I pray for your protection because I love you, not because I'm god fearing.
I haven't been afraid to die for a long time, becoming a tortured soul for all eternity, or becoming subjugated to your lord in heaven.
What I'm afraid of is not living a full life before I go.
I'm sorry if that's selfish.
If you're reading this, I'm sorry.
Rafael Melendez Aug 2020
The future is the hipbone of our relationship. I try my best to enjoy the moments we have together now, but they're so few and far between. So I look to the future, but the unknowingness doesn't bring me any solace.
Thinking of the future isn't working either, but that's the only place that I can think of where we don't have to hide.
This is just become a place I share my personal feelings, excuse this if it isn't actually poetry.
Rafael Melendez Aug 2020
Seems I've found myself in someone else, and now that those embers have gone, my shadow goes with it.

Once again, who am I? Am I the lovelorn insecurities? Am I caring and compassionate or have I just convinced myself I am?
Am I true and trife, or am I just a masked phantom, waiting to drop the curtains with the chandelier, and say I love you again?
Rafael Melendez Aug 2020
Maybe we aren't meant for each other, whatever that means, but I still want to be with you.
Whether fate or god pre-ordained it.
I will protest god and fate kicking and screaming.
And even if I lost you, my love for you would never fade..
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