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Leslie Castaneda Sep 2020
How do you speak on something never felt?

Although understood it is not the same.
My father showed my mother love when he knelt.
She showed him love by taking his last name.

But the love of a parent is much different,
than that of someone not blood related.
At times it can be more significant,
to feel something that’s been so long waited.

Yet some say love is more than just a feeling.
They call it a process, an action, a choice.

Sometimes love can turn dark, unappealing
  -leave you feeling like you no longer have voice

Still all I want is to wear my heart on my glove
  -to hold and be held or love and be loved
Leslie Castaneda Sep 2020
Powerful barks from the canine sheltering her pup.

How beautiful the sight of a mother protecting her young.

I step closer since all I want is a better look at the mutt.

I notice her ears are up as if in constant alert, and her tail wags in frightened concern.

I feel her gaze on me as I bend to pet her newborn son.

So up close her true colors appear. With eyes as dark as coal, nails as strong as steel and teeth as sharp as knives, she bites at the hand that feeds. A closer look is all I asked for not a half bitten thumb.
Leslie Castaneda Sep 2020
Hi! How are you? Hope all is well, sending you love and wishing you luck. Have an amazing day!
Leslie Castaneda Sep 2019
Baby give me a sign
nothing much just a smile
You know how to make me feel fine
like everything’s all right
Let’s take a stroll down the road
chug a coffee, eat toast
We can walk hand in hand
while singing songs of romance
Slow songs play overhead
bodies sway now instead
Locking eyes as we dance
you can stop time with that glance
Watch scary movies on screen
our screams end up in sync
Finish our popcorn and coke
seems like it’s time to go home
Walks under the sky
look how the stars have aligned
Come with me and you’ll see
that this is our destiny
We can do anything
together, you and me
Baby you so divine
just let me call you mine
Leslie Castaneda Aug 2019
Recently been feeling like im brain dead
Like a sheep in a bloodshed
Leslie Castaneda Aug 2019
Hold me close to your heart so I feel that it’s beating. Hug me tight till I know that you’ll never leave me.
Leslie Castaneda Aug 2019
Wrap your arms around my waist as we think of silly things yet keep it to ourselves because we’re too afraid of what the other might think
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