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Danielle Lucero Aug 2011
I don't know who I am anymore.
who I ever was for that matter. I
hate
that saying
"I just have to find myself"
it feels like a lame
copout.
an excuse to leave behind your responsibilities,
an excuse that makes everyone feel like crap. everyone
but you.
nevertheless, here I sit
at the bottom of a dark closet asking myself:
who am I?
that question is just a breath away from:
I need to find myself.
where does one go
exactly,
to find one's self?
I might need to buy a ticket

I have been so caught up in
pleasing people,
I don't know
how to
please myself.
I want to cry.
I want to feel that deep aching rip in my chest that comes with the choking toddler sobs.
I want to taste the salty tears as they trickle down my face, tickling my checks’.
I want to release this swirling scream from within my lips.
I want,
I want,
I want,
I don't know what I
want.
how could I? I don't know who I
am.

I wonder if there is really even
anyone to discover?

will I
always feel this way?
I can't remember before I felt this way. even though I
am sure that there was a
before.
could this possibly be a feeling that people live with?
I need air to live. I need
light
to see. I don't know who that person in the mirror is
but, life goes on.
Do I need simply to repress this feeling, like
so many others:
alienation,
loneliness,
longing,
and now this, this
ambiguity
within myself. that is myself.
I am...
a
question
Danielle Lucero Sep 2010
when I look at you
I stare into your eyes
into your
soul
deep within me
something stirs
a tingling sensation moves
up and down my
spine
my breath quickens
and my
heart
pounds to the rhythm of your words
I know it is cliché
I know it is silly
and you hardly seem to
notice when I'm not around
but
when I look at you
you stare right back at me
straight into my eyes
straight into my
soul
Danielle Lucero Aug 2010
the gentle motion
of your chest up, down, up, down
moving next to mine

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