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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.
Rafael Melendez Nov 2016
Now this may be a bad idea, it may be worse than the conceiving of this very writing, but it is what I want to do.
Slap me in the face and tell me to get it together, please.
Rafael Melendez Nov 2016
I was not passionless, you were my passion, as much as it may sound like a glorification or romanticization. As much as it may have scared you that I may have been in love with only the idea of you.
   But the proof was undeniable, those two years were based off more than just an idea, it was something more, a feeling, it was life. You were my life, literally.
   You were one of the few things that kept me alive at the time, when I was so terrified of death. With those nights we first spent together, on the golf course, holding hands, and watching that shooting star fall. The nights we would spend in my room just you and I, how I asked if I could lay on your chest, those heartbeats I heard were of the calmest moments in my life. The hours and hours of videogames we would play together, laughing. The things we would watch together as we ate away at what seemed like was our problems. The feeling of your cold floor as I'd walk barefoot to make us tea in your dorms, when I'd lay in bed with you, how cold my feet were as they touched yours, how cold they no longer were after.
   And now that it is once again cold, I can't believe that it was only romanticization, regardless of my claims of being a hopelessly romantic writer, I refuse to believe that. That warmth was not a lie.
A vent. Please excuse that this may not be poetry.
I go to work in the same shoes I wore then, the waterstains haven't faded.
The smell of rain on the dirt of my soles, my soul with the colors of rain and soil.

If I cry, will you still smell the rain?
Rafael Melendez Aug 2015
The moon's glowing light has now gone, no longer a thing to help me fall asleep at night.
Now the sun never rises, and the stars always weep.
Rafael Melendez Feb 2017
Maybe we're afraid there will never be a catastrophic event that ends all of us together. Maybe we're scared of a normal life, a normal death. We want things to end in a crash of absolute chaos. We don't want to go quietly in the night. And by we, I mean me.
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.
Rafael Melendez Sep 2015
The one you truly cared about wants to forget you, not even your shadow will be left to remember. All that ever was you is gone now.
To die from a broken heart truly is the worst death of all.
Rafael Melendez Apr 2017
Life comes naturally to the unnatural, it comes as easy as a sound to the ones who don't give a ****.
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.
Rafael Melendez Jun 2018
An attempt to remind us what comes out when the sun goes down, but I know what the darkness brings.
It brings your smile. Nothing could have been as bright and magical in the dead of this summer night. Not even the willow lights.
Rafael Melendez Apr 2016
Wind chimes rocked his baby bye to sleep, while the baby's mother laid awake and weeped. Scared she couldn't give that precious what he needs.
The baby's father kept a note to read, always gone, and never gets to sleep. The future and the past was all they held dear, they missed a baby's breathing peacefully.
Rafael Melendez May 2017
I want to prove to her I'm not a *******, but the only way I could, would be moving on.
And the day that I move on will be the day that it no longer matters.
She will never know.
Yet again, another contradiction that will live until the day I die.

...So be it, I will prove it to myself.
I have moved on, and decided I will prove it to myself. You cannot control what I think of myself anymore.
Rafael Melendez Aug 2019
This is a story of a girl, lonely since the day the dust was given life. How deathly afraid she was to return to that dust. How deathly afraid she was to tell her family that she felt alone, even in their arms. How could she tell them she had no friends?
Those people she wished she knew, those people who she wished would just remember her name. Those people that really shouldn't have mattered at all.
Without
realizing
,
she
buried
herself

deeper,
and
deeper.

Every last breath of her soul snuffed out, crystalised personalities, smiles, laughs, humanity, blanketed by false securities given by every friend she had.
Including me.

Do you still want someone to say goodnight to you? To talk to you everyday, dream of you, give you their all, to climb in that hole of yours after you.
After you realize you aren't who they think you are and attempt to claw out of your hole? Leaving them alone.

If so, the night will come, and they will return as dust upon your shoulder.
A final goodnight, a last blanket with a whisper of your name, and an
I love you. Still.
My story was always about you, and you alone.
Rafael Melendez Sep 2015
He missed her so much every single hour of the day. He always spoke of her when he had the chance, so much that he was sure that everyone grew tired of hearing him.
But he didn't have a care in the world, so deeply in love that he was certain he would do anything for her. Even die.
She was his dream, his love, his life.

His Sunshine.
I have so much to say, but she hasn't called.
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"
Rafael Melendez Sep 2015
Happiness at every point, dreams and activity around every corner.  Motivation isn't a busy process without a one single queen or king.
For friends.

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