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242 · Nov 2018
Stuck in the Past
Rafael Melendez Nov 2018
You're welcome to mistakes, but don't let them become who you are.
241 · Nov 2018
Burn in the Sun
Rafael Melendez Nov 2018
I'm ungrateful of your presence, I leave an open spot on the outside of my heart, under my shoe, left behind in the burning asphalt that is your hell.
Burn in the sun.
Two sides of me, one wishes you happiness, and the other wishes you would burn to ash in that happiness.
239 · Mar 2017
Rambling
Rafael Melendez Mar 2017
People are real, no matter whether people believe that life isn't real, a *****, or too real. Sleeping through reality, forgetting, **** that.
233 · Sep 2020
God-Fearing
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.
224 · Jan 2021
Sleep Paralysis
Rafael Melendez Jan 2021
I woke to find myself in a pitch black room, I can hear you faintly.
In the distance your voice and another, I leave the room to search.
The voices get louder, I can make out the other voice as I start to hear yelling. It's me..?
We're arguing, but it isn't me.. it couldn't possibly be me because I'm here.
Where am I? This place is so dark, the lights have all gone out, why won't they work?
Where are you? I can still hear you, the arguing has become more intense, I'm yelling your name, searching each room, this place seems to grow more vast. Like an abyss I can't escape.
My love, help me.. I'm trapped in my own mind. Don't listen to this imposter!
Don't leave me alone.
Break these doors down, I'm sorry.. I need you.
222 · Nov 2018
Give or Take
Rafael Melendez Nov 2018
We want the warnings plain as daylight, but I'm not sure they  can be any more obvious.
We want someone to tell us what they want, and what they feel, but I don't know if they can get any louder.
I want more, to provide more, to live more.
But I no longer think that I have anything left to give or take.
218 · Mar 2017
Pardon My French
Rafael Melendez Mar 2017
**** myself, get money. ****** out of my mind. Following a passionless dim ******* color. Unfulfilled to the point of ******* myself
Rafael Melendez Nov 2020
Life is greed.

Love is redemption.

Stress and setbacks a diversion.

I'm trying to breathe a sigh

Of relief with you.
211 · Jan 2019
Please, Be Happy
Rafael Melendez Jan 2019
Pain is simply a process of learning, still, I don't want you to hurt.
203 · Sep 2019
High School
Rafael Melendez Sep 2019
Junior year, stop signs on the road, walking across town, back to the county line, passed go.
Ten years in a petri dish, the psychiatrist asks me why I think I care.

"Well friends are forever, aren't they?"
We never talk anymore, high school proximity was the only thing that kept us all together. You could have all very well been someone else in someone else's life.
But one day it won't matter, right?
The entire class will no longer be recollected as to ever have happened.
We all drift apart in the end, and we all will be forgotten by someone.
202 · Sep 2020
Nonexistence
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.
192 · Jan 2020
Fall In, Give Up
Rafael Melendez Jan 2020
Fall in and out of depression on a whim.
Fall in love and leave her alone on a whim.
Give a love away on a whim, and end up alone.
Give up a friend for absolutely nothing.

All my fears and hopes bury me in as I lie through my teeth, I'm losing myself to myself, to a future me that doesn't even exist.

A whim.
Rafael Melendez Nov 2019
Funny how people you know, may come and go.
Whether it be from a poor choice of words, or the weight of the world.
"Friends"
191 · Apr 2019
Copy
Rafael Melendez Apr 2019
What is the meaning of my life if I'm only an extension of her? My taste is not my taste, my life stopped being my life when I met her.
190 · Nov 2018
Excuses, Excuses
Rafael Melendez Nov 2018
Looking for a reason we stopped knowing one another?
Ask me my Zodiac, use it as an excuse as to why we didn't make it.

Search my writings for that love you so dearly and desperately desired, instead of me telling you I never got the chance.

Listen to that horoscope instead of just listening to me, it'll tell you what happened.
Recently had someone ask me my horoscope, they wanted to know how compatible we were back then, as reasoning to why we didn't work.
She read that the horoscope said we weren't, and that was that.
While I explained the exact reasons.

Face reality, face your mistakes.
189 · Aug 2018
Who I No Longer Want to Be
Rafael Melendez Aug 2018
You've become more than what your past has indicted upon you. She is not your past, your past is apart of who you were, which is not who you are any longer.
What I tell myself from time to time when I'm feeling like less than a person.
181 · Sep 2015
Untitled
Rafael Melendez Sep 2015
He always said he didn't dream.
175 · Nov 2019
Lead Thoughts
Rafael Melendez Nov 2019
Tis a nightmare, to think and then sleep, and sleep yet still think.
    Voices from the past echo in endless black at the back of my eyelids, the chasms of my mind showing me there are many things worse than death. Oh yes, by a thousand fold.
   I fall into the darkness, like lead weighs me down. I can't breathe, yet, I can still think, I die a thousand deaths, and yet, I can still think..

   But
     I
  can't
    do
     a
thing
.

    The questions my dreams beg for me to answer make me ever restless, the answers heavenbound, as I

sink

sink

sink


into the abyss.
166 · Jul 2018
Untitled
Rafael Melendez Jul 2018
Why can hate for someone grow when you no longer know who they are? Why can we be sad when we're also happy?
Why do we exist in a world where everything is supposedly coincidental?
Were your feelings of hate for me coincidence, when you confided in me, and I in you? Or was it always supposed to end the way that it did?

Why do I want you to forgive me, when it no longer matters?
160 · Feb 2021
Ode to Remembrance
Rafael Melendez Feb 2021
Do you remember how I tried to show you those songs?
Oh, trivial it seemed at the time.. But I prayed you'd remember the words.
Recite them with me, knowing how much it meant to me.
Oh, I wanted to recite one at our wedding.
If only you'd remember the words.
155 · Sep 2023
Untitled
Rafael Melendez Sep 2023
What's more difficult in life,
than living with yourself.
152 · Jul 2020
Lowe You So
Rafael Melendez Jul 2020
I'm not like the others.
I think I'm lower.
I'm not like the others, I'm foolish though I love you so..
151 · Dec 2019
Self Loathing
Rafael Melendez Dec 2019
Despondence. As I ponder, the thought of love, the thought of like, and what's the point of it all.
Self loathing, while I think of her, and how she has no idea of my motives. The innocence is all consuming each time she gives me a glance, and god sees failure in me as I glance back.
148 · Apr 2020
The Weight of a Shadow
Rafael Melendez Apr 2020
Everytime you go,
My shadow follows.

It lays it's weight,
Upon your shoulders.

And I'm always so sorry.
145 · Jul 2019
Halved Hue
Rafael Melendez Jul 2019
I shield my eyes from the sun peeking  
    between the arches and peaks.
Halve the leaves, green, red. Again.
    Halve them, yellow, orange. Fire in
     piles, split again and again.
not one hue of color left, only black
     and white.
Changed but the same.
Secret message, see if you can find it.
140 · Feb 2022
Untitled
Rafael Melendez Feb 2022
You only know to appreciate things when they're dying.
131 · Oct 2020
Change
Rafael Melendez Oct 2020
The nature of change is chaos, anxiety, stress, but life is change.
Love is change.
I ask for change, I want us to both be strong for the all of the change to come.
Rafael Melendez Nov 2020
Oh how I miss you.
You're still here, but each day I go longer without hearing from you.
And I know it's my fault.
I'm pushing on glass.
I'm pulling on barbwire.
I make myself a fool each day I wake up. I can't get over this feeling. I'm scared you'll leave me, so I lash out. I'm scared you'll know everything there is to know about me, and be steered away by it.
Not poetry, but needed this.
123 · Jul 2020
The Storm
Rafael Melendez Jul 2020
The rain came down, tapping the window as if to get our attention.

The lightning flashed to the beating of our hearts, in sync, in pulse. Faster and faster.

The clouds stirred above our heads, and the darkness comes to life.

But we don't turn, though the rain birthed a mote for us to witness.
We are not blinded, though the lightning flashes the vast sky.
And we can see, though the darkness is evergrowing.
Right into our eyes.

Absolutely nothing in this world could come between.
122 · May 2022
I'm Lost
Rafael Melendez May 2022
What is a man made of?
My father made mistakes I swore I'd never make.
But now I feel like the man I never wanted to be.

Are all men doomed from the moment they're born? Cursed to be the means of their brethren, fathers, and grandfathers?

God, am I a failure in your eyes?
I need hope for the man I wish to be, but the look in her glossy eyes tells me otherwise.
I've lied through my teeth, God.
Before you, and before her, before my own mother.
I'm lost, Father, am I ******?
122 · Jan 2021
Happy New Year
Rafael Melendez Jan 2021
My friends all went around telling such happy aspirations for the new year to come.
Mine was to get used to being alone with myself, because in the end it always comes down to me.
And this New Year, I feel is going to be a lonely one.
120 · May 2020
Broken Fool
Rafael Melendez May 2020
I've been broken up into pieces. One says I'm being a fool and that I should wait for you.
The other says I'm a fool because I'm waiting for you.
120 · Nov 2020
Did you?
Rafael Melendez Nov 2020
You never really read my writing, did you?
I wish I were wrong, I wish you'd loved them.
Intrinsically.
Like I loved you so, in these words.
Did you?
119 · Sep 2020
Say It Back
Rafael Melendez Sep 2020
When I say I love you, do you hold your head up high? Or do you hide face.
Don't let the others see, it's a shame.
I want to be something you're proud of, not just another of the same, lost in the crowd.
117 · Jan 2023
Wake up, Honey
Rafael Melendez Jan 2023
Your laughter,
Calming like chamomile,
Sweet like honey,
Sleep easy with your laughter in my mind,
My dream are just reality.

Wake up, honey.

Let me hear your laughter,

Again.
117 · Sep 2020
Day by Day
Rafael Melendez Sep 2020
Each day I don't see you,
Is another day closer to the day I do.
116 · Mar 2020
Laughter
Rafael Melendez Mar 2020
Would it make you feel better,
If I told you the sound of crying
Sounds like laughter at times.

It could be better, right?
116 · Jul 2020
Fix You
Rafael Melendez Jul 2020
As we sat in the car, I sang a sad song.
You sat and thought about how the song had to be about you, and with my lips I sang of how terrible I was.
Fix You
By Siv Jakobsen
114 · May 2020
Stupid Thoughts
Rafael Melendez May 2020
Would you think it's stupid if I told you I remembered something you forgot.
I try not to say, I don't want to upset you.
I always remember things you tell me, or I try to. The things that are important to you.
Sometimes I wonder, do you think to do the same? Am I in your memory?

Do I roam your thoughts,
Or do I run through them and become nothing but an afterthought?
I don't want to be the last thing you remember or the first you forget.
I want to know how important I am to you.

Is that stupid?
114 · May 2020
Heart to Guts
Rafael Melendez May 2020
Why am I still up?
A combination of sadness and uncontrollable coughing.

If you knew me, you might think," Why the sadness? You have your family, you have the girl. Why?"

Well I don't know, but it feels as though my body does before I do, that I'm going to lose something. It's kept me up late at night. Coughing up a lung, my blood heats up, and goes straight to my head. I feel something coming.
But is it my gut, that's always right? Or my heart that steers me wrong..?

I can't tell..
113 · Nov 2022
Motherly Instincts
Rafael Melendez Nov 2022
In denial, full of ****.
A protector of nothing.
Selfish to all ends.
Placing blame, but I didn't put her on those meds.
113 · Aug 2019
Ode to the Lovers
Rafael Melendez Aug 2019
Ode to the lovers

slaves to one another.

So exhausted.

Hope is running dry,

 losing the glint in their eyes.

I hope you make it out of this alright.
109 · Jun 2020
For a Day
Rafael Melendez Jun 2020
I don't want to be king for a day,
or to have all the riches in the world.
I want you all to myself,
for a day.
104 · Aug 2020
Kicking and Screaming
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..
96 · Nov 2020
Untitled
Rafael Melendez Nov 2020
Can I always make you happy?
I ask myself..
These days, I'm doubtful.
I task myself, day in, day out,
to make you smile that beautiful smile just once.
If I can do that, maybe you can forgive the times I've made you sad.
95 · Mar 2020
Heartbreak
Rafael Melendez Mar 2020
My heart is beating,
Louder now.
It's like it knows it's,

Alone,
with me.

Soon, I wonder if
it will stop beating.
93 · Jul 2020
Untitled
Rafael Melendez Jul 2020
Get out of your head
Get out of your head
Get out of your head

Stop being such a fool, let her be happy.

Even if you want to be happy with her.
93 · Jul 2020
Big Bang
Rafael Melendez Jul 2020
Are the sun and moon forever to be pushed away from one another by the space inbetween?
Or will the stars sparkle like applauds at the sight of the embrace?
93 · Apr 2020
Letting Go
Rafael Melendez Apr 2020
It is beautiful to help the one you love, but is even more so beautiful to know that they don't need your help.

They can be strong all their own if needed be.
90 · Jul 2020
I'm Alive
Rafael Melendez Jul 2020
I've been staring at nothing for the past five minutes, I'm losing my mind, even though I'm alive. I'm just staring off into space..
I'm just a waste of space.
I've been wishing I wasn't the way I am a lot lately.
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