Eating Ice cream on an afternoon
Spending my day with you
Sitting on a park bench
Trying to just destress
Watching the clouds float by
Birds fly around us so shy
You lay crumbs for them on the floor
Fly down to eat the lure
You smile at them as they move
Your laughter my own cure.



© Sofia Villagrana 2018

Running after clouds as they rush by
But I don't turn back
They are now waterfalls
When I try to look beyond the horizon
I am meeting with an endless ocean of thoughts
Scared of delving deep
Don’t want to lose my sight
People wave and call me
I don’t have any time to halting
Shoes are gone my feet are bare
Feel the broken asphalt biting
But now it's more like a comfort

When I
Stop

I can hear my heart
Beating so loud
Pulse in my throat is jumping

When I started running
Blisters were forming on toes
Hands scrapped cause I kept on falling
Wasn’t use to doing things on my own
Behind everyone’s bikes
But now I am ahead of them

When I breath
A deep breath

One
Two
Three

Out

One
Two
Three

In

One
Two
Three

Go

Look onward
Don’t stop running
When you are amazed
Keep running alongside these clouds
And maybe you’ll catch one in your hands
Don’t stop and take a breath cause only one road
It's getting destroyed so stay on the path don’t fall down

Every day there was puddles and thunder
And you fell down a hole once in a while
Broke your arm
Scrapped your legs
Missing shoes
Bleeding knees
Scratched face
Fragile wrists
Dry mouth
Shaking limbs
Vibrant eyes

What else is there for me?
Do I run and try to be free?
Why was I running in the first place?
I don’t remember I think?
Or was that the whole plan?

But clouds keep on calling me
So I listen and ignore my soul
The world is turning
And I feel the motion underneath my feet as I move

Until I suddenly stop
There's no more path
I am panting though
At the edge of a cliff
Feet half on
The Ledge
Hanging

Do I jump, knowing there's no way back to myself?



© Sofia Villagrana 2018

I walk in the morning
Please walk ahead of me
You’ll come across a stream
Drowning in hues
Of yellow like the sun
Reflecting all my ambitions
Floating on the surface

Please don’t run
after paper airplanes
Aimlessly in the air
They will crash to the ground
into puddles of rain and snow
Dissolve like your dreams
And you’ll fade

Morning and afternoons
Standing here beside you
Rivers and ponds nearby
Wanted to swim in them
All of the time

Mother was calling out your name
But you just walked away
Into the forest down the path
Wanted to find something grand

And all these aspirations will drown
You hold on tightly to your delusions
Ignorance is truly a blessing
But as we age the hues become duller

And all the time and all the days
Memories still fade into a fog
And I wanted to grasp them
Instead, I ended up crushing them

But a war in your heart is raging
Youth or Wisdom fighting
Conflicted ideas running rampage

And you have yet to decide
Which path to take
Airplane or your mother
Adventure or simple comfort

Will you follow everyone
Knowing you’ll be normal?
Or will you go off
In an adventure?

Do you want to be alone all the time?
No mother or father at home
Would you waste away in the past
Not knowing the truth?
Or would you just end up dull
Knowing that nothing lasts?



© Sofia Villagrana 2018