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10.1k · Mar 2013
Insomnia
Carlos Molina Mar 2013
Can't sleep, it's always the same.
I get to my room, exhausted, lie in my bed,
Close my eyes and the Sleepless Fairy
decides to take the reins of the situation.

Maybe if I go to my computer and surf for a while
I could doze off. Maybe I'll go out and have a cigarette
to calm the Fairy. No, this insomnia is different. I can't fix it
with simple solutions.

This wakefulness is not due to the anxiety of an exam,
or the diffidence I have for that one girl I can't get out
of my head. This insomnia is that small sparkle of
uncertainty that has abounded my mind for a long time.
That feeling of vagueness, of yearning. Yearning of what?
I don't know.

It is simply that feeling that I'm missing something,
whatever it is. I go around the whole day in my mind,
what am I missing? What am I forgetting?

During the day I'm acquiescent, lucid, happy.
But come night... time to go to bed.
Time to perform the daily check for recent events.
Catalog the occurrences with different feelings,
accommodated to their respective memories.

But there's something missing.

I curse the Fairy and its 1001 tricks that keep me
awake and conscious about that which is in the
subconscious.

Will the day come when the Fairy shows up no more?

As long as that feeling is housed in me, like a parasite
clogged on its new victim, the Fairy will keep visiting.
6.9k · Dec 2014
Vile Melancholy
Carlos Molina Dec 2014
Long days have passed
Since I tried to forget you last.
Pain and resentment have seceded,
Yet the vile melancholy has succeeded.

And part by part,
it chokes my heart.
I'm not good at rhyming.
3.2k · Apr 2013
The Stairway
Carlos Molina Apr 2013
Life is hard and Strange.
Things can happen
that we never imagined.
But in the end
just at the end of our stairway
we get to rest and see
all of our succeses and failures.
2.4k · Jul 2014
Radiant Constellation
Carlos Molina Jul 2014
Through the astral plains
upon which my consciousness
rides, the vicissitudes of fate
brought about insurmountable awe.

Nebulas of thoughts gathered
distant and fleeting memories
to assess and sort the debris out.

Close to the event horizon, yet
its gravity doesn't pull.
Away from black holes and worm holes,
through thick and thin gaseous satellites,
this voyage goes.

A radiant constellation
from a billion light years away,
can be seen. Unfaltering, ubiquitous,
and seemingly sempiternal;
it's light glistens across galaxies.

The search is now done and,
as ephimeral as might be,
no stardust or meteorite owned
could amass the value
of a mere glimpse of this constellation
1.8k · Apr 2013
Silence
Carlos Molina Apr 2013
What is this feeling?
What is this light buzzing that engulfs me?

Creeping from under all the noise,
always living in the shadows of
our daily life,
lies our most sincere fear.

You may be good, determined, proud.
You may be bad, remorseful, desperate.
But we're all the same when we fall victims
Victims of a disastrous truth.

Day, night; hot, cold. It doesn't matter
when or how.
Once a person is alone, completely alone,
does the Silent Assassin act.
You can't avoid its both malignant and
benign presence.

What we fear the most is silence.
Absolute and utter silence.
The kind of silence you can never come back
from.
1.5k · Feb 2014
Grains of Sand
Carlos Molina Feb 2014
It started with a strident and clamorous shout
that squandered like fish in murky waters.

In this desert of truths,
many live with personal oases
that with time, like life dictates,
disappear before their owner.

The ample slopes of virtue and wisdom
have turned into mere streams,
striving for survival through a few.

When will we turn this desert
into a fruitful valley, abundant
with rivers and lakes?

It is said that
You reap what you sow
alas, we sow only sand.

Grains of sand
1.4k · Mar 2013
The Dagger
Carlos Molina Mar 2013
Your dagger pierced through my skin

I feel it emptying itself, the poison surrounds

Beneath the encasing of my skin

Lies a tortuous ordeal.

Never finding myself, never finding me

Just a mannequin, an empty shell

The dagger releases a seal

A past, unknown.

Keep looking for words, they're in there (somewhere)

Though I look good, unaware, happy

Fear it, cuz its only a layer

Just... a layer.

Beneath this skin, beneath these flesh and bones

About 6 feet under,

You might find it

Find me

The poisonous dagger, has done nothing to me

**** me? No

Released a seal

Released the truth.

I am me.

I've always been me.
1.1k · Mar 2013
The End
Carlos Molina Mar 2013
This is the end
you never saw it coming.
Walked your life without looking backwards
without looking sideways
You walked and walked, carefully choosing your steps
while staring relentlessly at the ground,
at your clothes, at the ground again.
Never looking forward.

You forgot what the past was like
The present was a mere blur
You concentrated so much on your ground
you never saw the wall coming.

Now the wall is here.
The end is here.
The future you once so anticipated
has come before time.

Before time...
689 · Dec 2014
Pens and Papers and Gods
Carlos Molina Dec 2014
A pen. A pen and a paper.
It all starts with pen and paper.
Music and art and literature and films
They're all brought to life (and limited)
by pen and paper

With pen and paper, you create
You become a god
You create and destroy at your whim
But like a god, you are to be destroyed
by your same creations

The only way to stay safe
away, and free
from the awaiting destruction you created,
is to stay far from pen and paper

Alas, pen and paper call to you
What comes off it, is something that
takes time to tame.

It is not a question of seeking answers
but a question of control.
Controlling pen and paper.
You control pen and paper,
you control life.
680 · Mar 2014
Absence
Carlos Molina Mar 2014
My soul becomes
conspicuously absent,
the day your ephemeral memories
sink into the deep waters of my solitude.
590 · Mar 2014
The Storm
Carlos Molina Mar 2014
Part I:*  *Caught in the eye of the...
The entrée of the storm and its' cyclonic winds,
have created a whirlwind of thoughts.
Because while the rain whips vehemently against ground
Life will be remembered as fragile, short and slippery.

The day, the beginning; the night, the end.
The storm is the only one that can take place
At both time points.
The storm has been from the beginning and will be until the end.

True to our love,
With her life began, and with it life will end.

Part II:  Calm after the...
Oh, dear friend, where are you?
For in this darkness that I lay,
I can no longer find you.

Oh, sweet Song of Storms
When shall you play in the atmosphere?
With your enticing melody, and beautiful sounds,
That break all the norms.

The storm ravages throughout the cities
That mankind has forsaken.
Rivers of endless chaos, destruction and
Despair…

And in the blink of an eye, the batting of a wing,
And a young maiden falling in love,
Everything is washed away by the beautiful storm.
So uhh... I tried something new. Wrote two poems, first one in spanish and second one in english, but I realized they kinda went together in a sorta time-skip way.

— The End —