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798 · Dec 2018
The Plants that We Are
Talking Back Dec 2018
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.
639 · Sep 2019
What's Wrong they Asked
Talking Back Sep 2019
Do I even need
A reason to be upset
When life itself
Is so.....
Aggravating
636 · Apr 2019
Solitary Rabbit
Talking Back Apr 2019
Oh solitary Rabbit
Do you not long for a companion
or Home?

Or  do you prefer watching this worlds seasons
come and go
alone?
598 · Dec 2021
Circle of Life
Talking Back Dec 2021
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.
574 · Feb 2019
Daisy
Talking Back Feb 2019
You went and got your wings without me
and now
I´m sitting here
contemplating my own
RIH 15/02/19
539 · Aug 2019
The Point
Talking Back Aug 2019
What's the point
Of telling the truth
If even my truth
Is at question?
445 · Jun 2019
First Love
Talking Back Jun 2019
You say that I cannot comprehend
The vastness of your feelings
When in reality it is I
Who cannot comprehend the strength of my own
399 · Aug 2019
Future Love,
Talking Back Aug 2019
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
371 · Nov 2018
A Dying Friendship
Talking Back Nov 2018
Sometimes I wonder
Just what is the point
Of cultivating a dead garden?
A dying friendship?

The flowers only wilt
The conversation scarce
No matter how much you check on them
Defend them from the elements
Encourage and will them to exist
There exist only the hard truth

You can only grow
What wishes to grow
Save
What wishes to be saved.
272 · Sep 2019
Love Antics
Talking Back Sep 2019
Do you smile at your phone
Like I do
When your name,
My name
Appears on my screen
Your screen?
Talking Back Apr 2019
It doesn't take Chemistry to see
We were not a solution and a solvent
but two solvents
Water and Alcohol
Unmixable
Not meant to be.
257 · Nov 2018
Sunday Afternoon
Talking Back Nov 2018
as the rain cascades
I can't help but wonder
if you are gazing at the same sky too
on this Sunday afternoon
252 · Jun 2023
I Too
Talking Back Jun 2023
Oh how unexpected
And unprepared I turned out to be
Never did I imagine me,
My mothers “wild child”
The life of every party
To be graced with your tiny presence
But then so happened
You

I called you string-bean
In one week I was ready to change
My life
My financial choices
My habits
To make space for you

Though I may never hear your voice
Your tiny heart beat was enough
To stop my own
And as time may pass
I’ll forever look at your pictures and remember
I too had once been someone’s mother
Talking Back Aug 2021
And as I looked into his eyes
I no longer could see my reflection
For his gaze held the silhouette
of Another
223 · Nov 2018
Honduras
Talking Back Nov 2018
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.
214 · Nov 2018
Crisis
Talking Back Nov 2018
Oh the existential crisis when you realize
That freedom never existed
Not for him
Not for her
Not me.

Yet my mind wonders what this freedom would feel like
That never belonged
Not to him
Not to her
Never Me.
213 · Aug 2019
Blew on By,My Luck
Talking Back Aug 2019
Today there was a storm,
180 mph winds
That's the equivalent of 285 km/h
or 177 miles
And yet not an ounce of luck
blown my way.
198 · Dec 2020
Scream
Talking Back Dec 2020
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
196 · Feb 2019
Tread Lightly
Talking Back Feb 2019
Sometimes I feel like I’m treading on eggs
But I’m just fine
Because I imagine they are your head
196 · Dec 2019
Bad Service
Talking Back Dec 2019
He was 'hungry'
So I fed him
Everything.
My time
My emotions
My fears and dreams
My heart.
Me.
Now my plate is empty
And he leaves
Check paid
No tip.
193 · Oct 2019
Misunderstood
Talking Back Oct 2019
I asked for
Assurance
Not
Insurance
For this broken heart
You gave me
189 · May 2023
Lost Time
Talking Back May 2023
Oh
How I cried
When I believed that time
Had stopped
For you
Now
These tears that graze
My face
Is for time
Wasted
176 · Aug 2019
Future Love pt. 2
Talking Back Aug 2019
Dear future Love
How I wish you were the present
172 · Jul 2019
Uncureable
Talking Back Jul 2019
There exist no medicine
For a broken dream,
A Broken heart
168 · Oct 2019
Confused
Talking Back Oct 2019
My mind cannot decipher
Wether my heart wants to be free
From stress
Or from you
161 · Dec 2018
Let´s Speak the Truth
Talking Back Dec 2018
It just so happens
That you loved me
Merely for convenience  

And when my feelings became too much
You left
Because I had become an inconvenience.
160 · Sep 2019
The Scent of You
Talking Back Sep 2019
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
148 · Apr 2019
expiration
Talking Back Apr 2019
Decisively
Everyone
Abandons
Their
Happiness
147 · Sep 2019
Mother Earth
Talking Back Sep 2019
Fantasies of a better world
Are realities tears.
145 · May 2019
in perpetual motion
Talking Back May 2019
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.
140 · Aug 2019
a letter to my father
Talking Back Aug 2019
I wish you could open your eyes
stop pushing me away
throwing my feelings and opinions to the side
and realize
I was never the enemy
140 · Nov 2019
Children,
Talking Back Nov 2019
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
136 · Nov 2020
I Long to Say
Talking Back Nov 2020
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
136 · Oct 2019
My turn
Talking Back Oct 2019
But when will it be my  turn
To cry on someone's shoulder
Be listened to
And told that it's alright?
135 · Nov 2019
No importante
Talking Back Nov 2019
It hurts
To know
To fathom
To understand
That I will never be your number one
Or even anything to you
133 · Apr 2023
A Letter To My Father
Talking Back Apr 2023
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.
125 · Mar 2019
Untitled
Talking Back Mar 2019
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
Talking Back Aug 2019
I'd give it all
To you
For you
121 · Mar 2019
Home
Talking Back Mar 2019
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.
117 · Oct 2019
Daisy pt.2
Talking Back Oct 2019
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
113 · Sep 2019
Be my final
Talking Back Sep 2019
You aren't my first
But I pray you're my last
Court me with these intentions
And maybe
We'll last
111 · Oct 2020
Reclaimed
Talking Back Oct 2020
You got me right where you want
Me
The palm of your hand
But I’m ready to leave
You’re a boy
Not a man
And waiting for you to change
Is like counting grains of sand
You never fought for me
Because you’re a boy
Not a man
You never realize what you had
Until I let go of your hand
Your actions I begged for
To late for I realize
You’re a boy
Not a man
101 · Mar 2019
Question of Life #1
Talking Back Mar 2019
Why is it the ones who are,
In the right that have too
Apologize masses
And kiss *****?
101 · May 2019
big sister
Talking Back May 2019
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
99 · Oct 2019
Untitled
Talking Back Oct 2019
I don't talk black
However I talk back
To the uneccesary judges
That have appointed themselves such
In life
95 · Sep 2019
Self Hate
Talking Back Sep 2019
My biggest fear in life is that one day
You all will look at me
Noticing all my flaws
That reside within

You'll point them out
Just as I do
And when your judgement is done
You'll forget about me

When really the one passing the heaviest verdict of all
Is me.
94 · May 2019
Searching
Talking Back May 2019
I long
For a Home
That I have never known

Much like a hound
longs for a bone

Home oh home
Where are you?
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