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84 · Oct 2020
The Sinner
Rafael Melendez Oct 2020
If you found out that all the terrible things your family have to say about me are true, will you still
Choose me?
If I was fiend in disguise trying to be better for you,
Will you tell them they're right?
Would you still love me?
Rafael Melendez Jun 2020
She wore a baggy sweater, on the cold colorless night. Walking down the corner of ******* boulevard and  litter lane.
Bleak as it always was, she dreamt of wearing a red dress to give color to the black and white.

But she was too afraid, and she didn't.
82 · Mar 2020
Untitled
Rafael Melendez Mar 2020
It brings me solace.
That you'll forget about me in time.
80 · Aug 2020
Accept the Consequences
Rafael Melendez Aug 2020
You have to accept the consequences. Your feelings are hurting her, you want to reject them, but you're impulsive and stupid.
Patience is a virtue, but you just aren't virtuous.
Are you, baby blue?
79 · Sep 2020
Pretty Little Lie
Rafael Melendez Sep 2020
Rationalizing someone lying to you, putting a bandaid on stitches. They come undone over time, and you just try cover it up.
They're lying because you would overreact, right?
Right?
They don't want you to get upset.
Right?
The pretty little lie, still sucker punches you in the gut.
It comes when you least expect it, when you cover it back up with all of the positive things you try to think about to make it disappear.
Here I am, before a shower, and the stitches have come undone once again.
74 · Aug 2020
The Phantom
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?
72 · Feb 2020
Obituary
Rafael Melendez Feb 2020
Maybe one of these days you'll find me
In the obituary, just another fool.
Split in two, and will you wonder?
What happened?
70 · Jan 2020
Reminiscence
Rafael Melendez Jan 2020
Reminiscing of a time in the future, when I'm someone deserving of what I have, and all the work it would take.
I keep thinking though, I could die a fiery death before that day ever comes, and what would be the point of that journey to completion.
I would never have been able to be happy with you.

To be happy with her.

To even be happy at all.

Is there a heaven where I can bask in it all, all of the beautiful things I could ever have? Is there a heaven where I deserve any of these wonderful beings?

No, there isn't.
And the point of this poem is only to reminisce on nonexistence and nothingness.
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68 · Apr 2020
Sincerity
Rafael Melendez Apr 2020
My mistakes grow by the day, as does your apprehension.
Each night I wait for you, the edge becomes so clear.
Sharp glass with a sharper reflection, that cuts away at everything you thought you knew about me.
Everything I thought I knew about myself.
I know nothing of that reflection,  and neither do you, my love.
68 · Aug 2020
Our Future Together
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.
67 · Jan 2020
New Year
Rafael Melendez Jan 2020
Sad to say this new year I just don't feel very important. Whether it's the girl I'm with or the girl I want to be with. Will it make a difference?
Or is this just a cycle I'm bound to repeat?
66 · Jun 2020
The One You Love
Rafael Melendez Jun 2020
Dad, I want to ask.

When will it mean something?

This love won't matter,

Will I end up like you?

Or like grandfather?

Did you ever find her?

The one you love most?
Recently someone told me, that love won't last a lifetime at my age. I won't find the real thing till I'm older? But if that's true, why do so many end up alone when they're older?
65 · Jan 2020
Moon Eyes
Rafael Melendez Jan 2020
Moon eyes, oh moon eyes, your mesmerizing gaze.
Hypnotizing the waves of blood flowing in my veins with the phases and glints as you look out that window.
Taking in all that light, and reflecting a melancholy that I cannot even begin to describe.

I'm lost in it, confounded.
Moon eyes, oh moon eyes, I wish I was enough to keep your chin up.
I wish I knew what was hiding behind those moon eyes so that I may mend whatever it is that burdens you.
65 · Jul 2020
Whatever
Rafael Melendez Jul 2020
They can say what they want,
It doesn't matter.
Two ways,
Two.
Death or Want.
If you want me to go,
If I die.

The only ways I will ever not be there.
62 · Jan 2020
The Beginning
Rafael Melendez Jan 2020
A somber soul once told me,"To dream is a sin, and to love is a mistake made since the beginning, it's life and death incarnate. You will live and die by these good dreams
And lost loves
. And what will you have to show for it but a somber soul?"
Leave it be.
62 · Aug 2020
Fear
Rafael Melendez Aug 2020
Sometimes I wish I was scared of something other than losing you.
Lions, tigers, or bears.
But none of those things compare.
61 · Aug 2020
The Dog and the Cat
Rafael Melendez Aug 2020
Like a cat, you like the attention, and when it's given, you turn your tail in disdain. I hold on tight, hurting you and hurting you. I haven't wanted to let go.
But you need someone more graceful, more patient, someone of stronger will.
I'm not that.
I'm a dog, in need of attention. We're opposites. I gnaw on your tail and you only see my teeth.

I will miss you..

— The End —