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Rococo Mar 2021
What we’d give to leave
This Stockholm Syndrome nation of broken dreams,
This sinkhole of a country where two oceans meet,
This wonderland of green set ablaze by greed.

What we’d give to live
In exile from a home vacant and evicted,
In soil that’s ripe with purpose and full of pride,
In a country where to be isn't to die.

This is our plea, our cross to bear,
and it weighs heavy on our backs and thoughts,
ever crushing at our minds and hearts.
Till death do us part, my five-star home.
Rococo Dec 2019
I woke up to my old man smell,
drenched in my sorrows and self-pity.
I woke up to the sound of joy forgotten,
and shrieking of children running, laughing, hoarding candy.
I woke up to the reflection of that brown-eyed boy,
with the skinny frame and the big dreams.

Whatever happened to him,
whatever happened to his world.

Here's to another day, another month, another year.
Here's to time, the only winner...
Rococo Oct 2018
To that dear antithesis of mine,
You who are for me what I’ll never be,
You who can bring about the greatest of wonders,
You who can birth life out of love.

You who must squander your blessings,
And sell them to the highest bidder,
You who has been forced to bleed and weep,
By that same world that bore you.

You who in your struggle found freedom to live and plan,
To lose and cry, freedom to feel, freedom to try,
You whom I love like one does a champion or a hero,
Whom I cheer for like one would a ravaging fire or a raging storm.

And yet, I can only watch you from this place that saw us grow,
From my mud and pain, my wrath and defeat,
In my awe, in my grave.

As I remain for you what you’ll never be.

— The End —