I cannot help but compare people to plants.

We are born,
Blooming throughout our lives
We sow seeds and bear fruit.

Like trees,
We take root spreading far and wide
And yet we wither and die in the same soil

Even still,
The flower petals dance through the sky
And our greatest adventure continues.

Do I even need
A reason to be upset
When life itself
Is so.....
Aggravating

It's so hard
To Forget
When you have
Yet to Forgive

And it's so hard
To Forgive
When you have
Yet to Forget.

What's the point
Of telling the truth
If even my truth
Is at question?

Dear Future love,

I look forward to seeing you form many faces
The happy ones when I occasionally cook
Because the mixture of my cultural differences will be comes as a surprise

The confusion when you upset me
To the sad ones you make when we argue
    because we care

Your sleeping one because you consider my
    side to be your place of comfort
The excitement we will share when good
    comes our way
To those tranquil moments that we wish
    would just stop

But the thing I look forward to the most
   Is loving you

Do you smile at your phone
Like I do
When your name,
My name
Appears on my screen
Your screen?

Honduras,
I stand with you
Even when my country covers her ears
I hear your cries

She remains complacent in her ways
Yet I shall help her recall
The Refugee Act of 1980

As you cross through frigid rivers
And walk through dense forest
With your families trailing behind you
Your hope blazes ahead of your journey
And I can see it,
The helping hand that we once swore to give

And as you continue your march to the border
While they rush to close your entry
I only wish that they could see it too.

And as I looked into his eyes
I no longer could see my reflection
For his gaze held the silhouette
of Another

I think
That there is a child
Within me
Every time
I lay to rest
I hear her screams
Not to be forgotten
Not to be left behind
Although
No one hears her
But me
I guess no one listened hard enough

Sometimes I feel like I’m treading on eggs
But I’m just fine
Because I imagine they are your head

I asked for
Assurance
Not
Insurance
For this broken heart
You gave me

To live is to breathe
To not breathe is to die
And yet
With every inhale I hope that it's carries
The scent of you

My mind cannot decipher
Wether my heart wants to be free
From stress
Or from you

Warm nights like this
Remind me of when I would watch you
Sit on the porch
And look at the sky  
As she beckoned for your worries
To join her

I can see your sunken shoulders
As you sat there,
Setting your alarm to wake up
And cook us breakfast
Before we went to school
And you to work
Scrolling
Scrolling
6:00 am set
If you went to bed now
you would probably get 5 hours

You scratch your head
That started to pepper out years ago,
Yeah, its time for a cut
But little Charlie needs shoes and
Terry graduates this year
And don’t forget
soon it will be Mary’s quince
Maybe next month you mumble

I can smell you light your Newport
While you look back at the sky
And you know
To this day I could never tell
If it was the stars reflecting in your eyes
Or Tears
That reflected in your eyes.

Decisively
Everyone
Abandons
Their
Happiness

You are the Universe
Disguised as a human
Hope
Transcendent upon land
Light
For a better tomorrow
You are a new day
Make the best of it

Once emotional ties are formed
I am gone once more
I don't think
I have stayed long enough in my seat
To even rest

on to the next
state
country
emotional adventure.

It hurts
To know
To fathom
To understand
That I will never be your number one
Or even anything to you

I have a love
Of whom I cannot call out too
How many times
Has my heart whispered
I love you
As you embraced me
I have said it in every language possible
Beyond English
So i can fight this urge of uttering
The words
You do not wish to hear
Despite your cold demeanor
And pushing me away
I love you
And yet
I cannot say it
For it is you whom I love

The house
Is just a house
And it’s not my house
But it’s a house

But the house
Could be my house
And could a home
In fact, my home.

Maybe I can give up wandering and settle just for few.

I am not the same person I used to be
Not last year
A month ago
A week ago
or even a second

That person exists no more
And I call her progress

Oh Daisy
Loved by everyone
Flowed with the wind
Kissed by the sun

Petals filled with starlight
And dancing to the Sunday's praises
Advice and love always at heed
And right now grandmother
You're what I need

Oh Daisy
How I miss you

I'm considerably lazy
but for my brothers
I would sprint in hellfire itself
if they ever needed their big sister

brave the tundra
if they told me they were sad
and travel from the moon
to hug them if they were lonely.

I would give them the world if I could
but
I can only give them my heart
Even though they are already living pieces of it

I long
For a Home
That I have never known

Much like a hound
longs for a bone

Home oh home
Where are you?

Why is it the ones who are,
In the right that have too
Apologize masses
And kiss *****?

I don't talk black
However I talk back
To the uneccesary judges
That have appointed themselves such
In life

Open fields are meant for me to listen
To the stars tell me it's alright
While I cry silently about being lonely