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  Apr 21 NoHayPila
Yorlan
Como duele que seas ajena.
Ajena de mis brazos
y mi cariño.

Saber que entregas tu boca,
como si fuera  el manantial
del cual todos pueden beber
su agua cristalina.

Me amargan
estos celos que no deberían
ser míos.

Sé que no somos nada,
porque eres
ajena a mí.

Ajena de esos besos
que podrían cubrir
tu cuerpo.

Ajena porque no sabes
la vida que podría
prometerte,
los desvelos libidinosos
para que nuestro placer conmute.

Pero prefieres vivir
libre como el aire
que te despeina,
probar todos los sabores
que la vida te sirva.

Por eso
malgido el haberte conocido
aquel diciembre inolvidable.

Porque ahora
mi mente solo sabe
de tí. De tus olores,
de tus labios de algodón
y tu piel café.

De tus gustos,
de esa risa que me atonta,
sabiendo que tú
eres ajena.
NoHayPila Apr 21
My heart aches for a comfort I once knew—
not a place, not a person,
but a breath of warmth, a vanished echo,
a feeling I cannot trace.

It lingers in the salt of a memory
dissolving on my tongue,
in the brittle edges of old polaroids
where time has smudged our names.

I gather museum tickets
like relics of a past life,
paper-thin proof that I
belonged somewhere once.

But going back is like stepping
into a house where all the furniture
has been rearranged—
familiar, yet wrong.

Homesick for a ghost, I wander.
Hoping, searching,
For a voice, a touch, a sign—
anything that will whisper:

"You have arrived. You are home."
NoHayPila Apr 21
Alone she waits where waves won't sleep,
The sea her grave, the sky her keep.
For love, for hope, for what can't be,
Just bones adrift in memory.

No voice to cry, no soul to see,
Yet still she waits eternally.
Time turned her into bone and air,
But still she lingers, as if one cared.
  Mar 31 NoHayPila
Anais Vionet
We’re in a young-love recession.
Gen Zers are slow to trust and averse to risk,
we have, it seems, a particular social nervousness
about interpersonal exchanges and the symbiosis of love.

So we resort to situationships (undefined relationships),
a stratagem for closeness, with zero commitment.

You can flirt; you can kiss; you can dance.
You can have a crush so big it blots out the stars
You can have transformative romantic encounters
you can care deeply and get hurt badly
you can, in fact, be absolutely wrecked by love
All without ever being in a relationship.

Thank God we’re only young once.
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Songs for this:
Die With A Smile by Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars
Busy Woman by Sabrina Carpenter
BLT Merriam Webster word of the day challenge 03/15/25:
Stratagem =  a trick or plan for achieving a goal
NoHayPila Mar 17
I need you like twilight needs the stars,
like weary hands crave a gentle touch.
The world is softer with you in it—
its edges ease, its air turns warm,
the weight of longing lifted in my ribs.

I close my eyes and reach for you,
and though miles stretch between us,
I find the trace of your presence still—
cologne and cigarettes,
smoke curling soft in memory,
a scent that whispers, I am near.

If I could pull you through the distance,
fold the hours between my hands,
I would rest my head against your shoulder,
breathe you in until the ache fades.
But even now, love lingers in the quiet,
a steady pulse, a tether unbroken.

You are not gone, only waiting—
your laughter still echoes,
your warmth still lingers,
and your name, when spoken,
is not a wish, not a prayer—
but a promise that love remains.
  Mar 12 NoHayPila
Dani Just Dani
It’s a sunny day,
I watch you
Slip through
My fingers
As I dip my hands
Into you,
Smoke dangling
From my lips
Like scars.

Tell me,
My love,
My new love,
My new found love,
Will I lose you too?

The tide pulls back,
a quiet thief,
stealing footprints
before I can trace them twice.

Tell me,
is love always like this?
A flicker in the dark,
a matchstick kiss,
a fleeting warmth
Tired and soulful eyes.

Or will you stay,
linger like salt on skin
like a song I whistle,
long after the music fades.
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