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Angela Moreno Sep 2016
Though I dream of sleeping beside you,
The dream is even greater,
To wake up
In the morning
With you by my side
And know that you stayed
By my flesh and bones
All through the night.
Angela Moreno Sep 2016
Do not believe these wrinkles on my face
And the lies that they tell.
For I have years of growing up to do.
I know so,
For I am still at a point,
Where I am too scared to be with you,
And too selfish
To want to see you with anyone else.
Angela Moreno Sep 2016
Try
I know it would be crazy for us to try.
I know.
But I can't help but think,
That it would be crazier still
To not try at all
And risk missing out
On all that we could be.
Angela Moreno Aug 2016
She smells like the summers of India,
Heat radiating from her skin,
Her eyes two green planets on our own.
I can see her through the window,
Wrapping paper thin Egyptian cotton
Tightly around her *******.
I know not to stare,
But her beauty wraps its fingers around my neck.
When she is finished she will stand back,
Gaze at herself in the mirror.
She just might cry,
Like I have seen her do nights before.
In early morning
She will step onto the balcony.
Rising before the dew touches the earth.
I know not the first thing about her,
Save the glory of her beauty.
Perhaps I shall never know more.
No,
I know not the first thing about her,
But she loves to watch the sun rise.
Angela Moreno Aug 2016
I am not allowed to love you.
And so I do not.
I do, however,
Love the way you greet me.
I love the way you laugh.
I love how angry you get
When the radio plays the wrong song.
I love your teeth.
I love your conviction.
I love how paranoid
You can be at times.
I love the way you love to live.
I love your angry fits.
I love the way you talk about others.
I love how happy you get
When recalling random stories.
I love your confidence.
I love your strange habits.
I love how fearless you are.
I love the way
You defend until it destroys you.
I love it.
I love it all.

I am not allowed to love you.
And so I do not.
There is, however,
A small, timid part of me
That would love for you to read this
So you could know
How much I really do.
Angela Moreno Aug 2016
Every time I spend time with you,
I tell myself to take that time
As opportunity
To realize that friendship
Is the only thing for us.
That romance is not needed for us.
That butterflies and lovers' nights
Are only wrong for us.
Yet every time we are together,
Against my best efforts,
All I can think
Is how badly I want to hold you.
I think of how badly I want to embrace you,
And make your pain my own.
What I would give
To take it all away.
Not to change who you are,
But to hold you through the tears,
And laugh with you during the joys.
I want to care for you,
Grow old with you,
And die with you beside me.
I am no good at this game.
This "friendship only" game.
But you and I both know,
I was never quite good at those things.
Angela Moreno Aug 2016
You said it was nothing
When you kissed her.
That a kiss doesn't mean a thing.
But I wish it did.
I wish a kiss meant everything.
I'd give anything for that reassurance
That all those times you kissed me,
That you felt everything.
That it meant something.
Or anything at all.

It's your choice.
It always has been.
I don't beg people to stay,
Nor do I stick around
Where I'm not wanted.
I just hope you know
I was ready to give you the world.
You already were mine.
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