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Jan 2012 · 2.3k
Corridors
Emanuel Martinez Jan 2012
Corridors, Corridors, Corridors
Turning corners, fortified walls

Falling dust settling on grime
Windows shattering from flying hail

Pain itemized for personal use
The heart is bleeding
From its place in the innermost cabinet

The storm is not passing
The ghostly folly is penetrating
Weakening beams through their creaking

Aimless sounds of abandon and disrepair
Are whistling silently through
The light of the sun and blanket of the moon
That seep in through the holes of the sealing

The elements of the world are caving in
As I walk through the corridors
Searching for a way out
endorsinglife.blogspot.com

January 2, 2011
Oct 2011 · 628
Die of Love
Emanuel Martinez Oct 2011
I think I'm going to die of love

To be loved, to be needed, to be wanted
That's all I've ever wanted

Pebbles in the sand
Moving down underneath the stream

Our lives are washing away
with every stroke of water

Wasting away, eroding like precious metal
Emotions are changing color
They're getting older, they're getting bolder

I think I'm going to die of love

Facing every border, I'm holding on for it
The release of me, to be held and worn away

Candle breathing, dripping, burning
Our souls are hanging, our souls are begging
The warmth is only dim and disappearing

No, our souls are not freezing
The cold is just teasing

The channels are still shifting
The thought of love is hurtful

Going close to the edge
We're close to faltering, we're close to falling over

We're prey to love, we're frayed by love

I think I'm going to die of love
October 26, 2011
endorsinglife.blogspot.com
Emanuel Martinez Oct 2011
Prayer is said to be powerful.
Well this soul begs the Grandest Force in this universe
to place love in this being's life.

A flower of one's own that radiates with one's soul
and reciprocates the actions
to nurture it beyond disbelief.

This spirit is not sully
wondering into such ways is only dangerous.

If this heart has already been dismantled
by the only flower who received the transfusion of one's love
the being cannot take that back.

Reconciliation regarding the breathtaking
and impossible cannot be taken back.
Chunk after chunk...that part of the mechanism is falling to disrepair.
June 2, 2011
endorsinglife.blogspot.com
Emanuel Martinez Oct 2011
Crawling inside the depths
are fears of inadequacy and lose of hope...hopelessness.

Senselessness becomes rational where before it had no place.

Often when the spirit is momentarily uplifted
panic abounds of the ensuing crashing down by a broken heart.
Despite this familiar thought, right now this is not the concern.

Joy and harmony must rob the soul
of hurt, anger, and a shattered heart.

The tides of time do not stop for no one stone.
Take your stride soul; be as powerful as you can be.

Spirit be not afraid to kidnap this being
from self inhalation through self-inflicted pain.
Mend the leakage of this being's punctured heart.
June 2, 2011

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Sep 2011 · 959
Tear Colored Memories
Emanuel Martinez Sep 2011
Tear colored memories
Lovely hanging melodies
Chanting the wrong pleas

Oceans of stars are washing ashore
The sky is falling apart
While together at last

Candles are lighting the way
Through the rain and the storm
Mine is all but a trail of smoke

Counting the hours, the minutes
We are left here to wait
The sand is not sinking in

As he walks down the beach
I smile and he looks at me
I blush and look away

Tear colored memories
Lovely hanging melodies
Chanting the wrong pleas

How can it be that you left so soon?
You dropped one grain of your heart
Through promenades keeping our hands warm

It must have been so easy
You breaching my heart
Letting the breeze leave love on my skin

Wondering like fools oceans apart
I ran away, too afraid to feel
So you left your hand out a thousand miles away

For me to come to you
Whenever the time was right
You left that warm welcome in your arms

Tear colored memories
Lovely hanging melodies
Chanting the wrong pleas

Every once in a while
You come back to remind me of you
Giggles echoes have taken away
Come back rushing in

You place your hand softly on my cheek
And I suddenly feel your lovely touch again
It’s no longer me, once more, its truly you

Memory of love I’ve never had
Is filling my soul with hope and fear
That tomorrow only good will come
September 15, 2011
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Sep 2011 · 619
In Love With Myself
Emanuel Martinez Sep 2011
I fell in love with myself
Touching the shallow end
Of the river bank close to my heart

Trying not to feel, feeling serene and loved
Every day I walk and I take everything
Get everything off my chest for you dear

Look in the mirror and watch that smile rise
Haven’t been there to take my own hand
Waiting for someone else to always be there

Watch me as I as step out of myself
I’m finally learning after time and time after time
I’m walking away, I’m stepping aside
I’m getting away, no matter what you say

I fell in love with myself
Touching the shallow end
Of the river bank close to my heart

We’ll always love me but were drifting away
Loving is settling in, it’s becoming a part of me
Trying to frame the goodness within

Outwearing the fears of my spirit
I’m no longer afraid; I’m no longer in fear
Crying is not showing the sadness of my heart

I’m tearing out of the joy in my soul
No longer belong to anyone else but myself
Flying away from myself, I’ve settled it down

I fell in love with myself
Touching the shallow end
Of the river bank close to my heart
September 14, 2011
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Emanuel Martinez Aug 2011
The depthness of the soul manages to reach
A richness that breathes something good.
That is when the hurt seems to run away.

The soul must just constantly quiet the mind.
Quiet, quiet - my shield. Everything is alright.
You must stop pestering the heart for you are not being rational
And that is driving the heart to dysfunction beyond repair.

Take my pain up to the heavens above and let it flee to nonexistence.
Place the coldness of my thoughts.
How have we all come to this point where we all are full of pain.

Crying only seems to relieve the hurt
But the depthness of the crisis is only widening.

Sometimes separation and isolation
Is the best strategy for a stronger resolution
To such matters as the ruptured, wounded heart.

There is no reconciliation between
What has happened and what it no longer is.
Stepping out of the soul is the only way.
June 2, 2011
www.endorsinglife.blogspot.com
Emanuel Martinez Aug 2011
There are many constraints that are beyond our control.
They often fight to define the boundaries that we are able to overcome.
However, it is our experiment with our lives to figure out how to resist.

We are not powerless even though we have no power.
We are not losing just because we are lost.
Our will to affront the usurpers of our life’s freedom is our own weapon.

We must have the conviction to overcome the norms of definition
That fight to establish who we are and where we fall within our own societies.

We must not succumb to the norms of definition
Of a Hispanic, a first generation American, an urban denizen,
A middle class or on the verge of poverty individual, a minority, or a foreigner.

We must find a way to resist even if it leads to our end.
January 16, 2011
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Aug 2011 · 798
Love Has Friends
Emanuel Martinez Aug 2011
A lost love incapable of being found
****** into air, rain is washing it away

Chained to a world of final fantasy
Reality is mad trying to liberate it

To dispel love of this world
Sourcing all the happiness
From a vessel that is destined to be full

Life is scaring it away
Every time only capturing an essence
But losing its lasting presence

Errors constructed by fears of emotions
One which will take you
To the depths of the ocean
Where love has shed its skin
And taken on a new beginning

Falling down fast to the surface of the heart
Love is searching through the darkness

The bottom of the ocean tries
To will its pressure to shatter its quest

But love has friends
The journey never ends
August 8, 2011
In collaboration with Saul Grullon
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Aug 2011 · 1.3k
War Lords
Emanuel Martinez Aug 2011
Twirling the world
Glass hearts shattering

Tears as brutal as bullets
Down to the ground, thundering

Wounds hungering
For pain and suffering

Armored boys and girls warring
Adults, too afraid, we're cowering
Faltering, the future is wavering

Water colors merely disappearing
Only mud drooping, and smearing
As we watch it engulf our mired territory
August 12, 2011
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Aug 2011 · 1.5k
Towers, Flowers, Showers
Emanuel Martinez Aug 2011
Towers, flowers, showers.
Make me, take me, create me.
Don't drop me, crop me, don't stop me.
Sense me, chase me, trace me.
With your eyes, hold me, never let me go.

Towers, flowers, showers.
Sure you, lure me, cure me.
Grip me, don't trip me, drip in me.
The fragrance of dew crawling up the walls.

Towers, flowers, showers.
Fill me, will me, don't shrill me.
To view the beauty of the world.
August 7, 2011
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Aug 2011 · 1.2k
Young Boy
Emanuel Martinez Aug 2011
Young boy.
Till the sun's down.
There's no time to weep.
Love will come around.
Troubled heart let beauty seep in.

Cute boy.
Stop feeling insecure.
The world loves you.
But they can't tell if you don't smile.
Follow happiness even, through tough times.

Good boy.
You've done nothing wrong.
Lift up those eyes and seek
Adventure through the wilderness.
Let your own guilt fade away.

Strong boy.
Stop being so afraid.
Just when you feel too weak.
An arm will be there to keep you up.
Take your share and be
The stronghold you know you are.

Sweet boy.
Don't let troubles passing your eyes sour your words.
Grab it, run with it, cherish it, and share it.
Show it to everyone, don't hide your love.

Young boy.
Till the sun's down.
There's no time to weep.
Love will come around.
Just hold on tightly for the ride.
August 7, 2011
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Aug 2011 · 1.3k
Human Freight
Emanuel Martinez Aug 2011
Cosmos’ in line
Trying times are hanging up
Harrowing efforts
Are disappearing from the host

Flying through concrete
The gold trap is deepening
Pant pockets are disappearing

Frayed lives are whimpering
Too much whispering
Richness is changing our living

Galaxies full of notion and time
In our mind they harbor
Asteroids driving our madness
To the core of the emptiness inside

Ticketing our ride home
The rail blurts its bias for us to be gone
So we fall asleep with its subdued sounds
Until we’re out and about
On our own two vehicles

Blasting tasting racketeering tricksters
Devine, sane, and holly men
No one is the same but we’re falling in
Forces are at a tug of war
We’re just the pawns in between
August 5, 2011
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Aug 2011 · 878
The Incredible Façade
Emanuel Martinez Aug 2011
Smiles and eyes, and hi’s
You take them so lightly
But they’re not really there
Though you perceive their presence

Amicable eyes,
Positive semblance of a frame
You take it a smile to the self
But that’s just part of a
Structure twisting and falling apart

But if it suits you
Fall in the false appearance
For that’s not what's being transmitted

Only a distorted face trying
To dislocate phrases and thoughts
July 16, 2011
Aug 2011 · 801
Time After Crime
Emanuel Martinez Aug 2011
Blood in the thoughts
Destruction and abyss
Antithetical to nurture and growth
The bleakness has become real
There’s no excuse,
Muse, but still you will loose

There’s no one to blame this time
Take it how you will but it’s not the world
Its just you

You broke the world and you didn’t even know
Trust and worthiness was left wrapped in your arms
But you rapped them both without a doubt
Now you realized what you did and it’s too far-gone

The only dove in the world was entrusted in your arms
And you shot it because your veins were raging with blood
So you lost your judgment and your sight
Don’t blame the sky for being too blue
At the moment you knew what you were shooting
And you took your aim

Now the peace has been shattered down to the ground
Even if you repair the wound there will always be a scar
And you have just tainted peace a little bit more
Instead of protecting it from the same danger
Like you promised all along

A pact between ocean and the stone that fell
Just remembrance, for the pain and joy was being dragged
To the depths of the dark hidden ocean floor
But it could not stay down forever as it washed ashore
Before it disappeared again into volumes of blue

But the moon is not forgiving for it pinches the ocean
And the stone gets spat out for the pain to be seen on the beach
How can it be destroyed before more damage is reached

Even the tides of time are having a difficult obstruction
In the dissolution of the stone for it keeps building form
Every time it comes back to the surface
Meanwhile the ocean is fighting to suppress it
Make it disappear with only but a trace

And the mess you made
Better do something with it before its too late
Don’t let it drag you away
Before you lose the way you’ve made

Oceans disturbed, doves broken, and entrustments ruptured
There’s no turning back but only looking forward
To salvaging what has been kept you moving along
If only a treasure you cared not to care
So you damaged it deliberately because you were desperate with desire

Now take what you will and detach the stone from your ocean
Save the dove for the voyage but don’t take from it what is not yours
And rescue the entrustments for it will carry you both
July 16, 2011
Aug 2011 · 2.3k
Lilies and Wine
Emanuel Martinez Aug 2011
Lilies and wine.
You're drunk with love.
And night's all shine.

So you starve and you crave.
Just a little bit more of Cupid's touch.
Puffed smoke hearts surrounding the time.
Present once more the universe sparks in your soul.
Lousy noises melting into harmonies so fine.

Lilies and wine.
You're drunk with love.
And night's all shine.

Your heart's secreting the serum of life.
Love is filling the hourglass of your time.
Now the pearl has found its light.
No pressure but weightlessness abounds.

Lilies and wine.
You're drunk with love.
And night's all shine.

Hold on firecely, lose yourself in beautiful time.
Tears of love and joy heal your wounds.
Flowers all fine, one you are, floating on air.
Swept out of reason, but your heart is too fine.

Lilies and wine.
You're drunk with love.
And night's all shine.

Capture the flower in your arms.
And drink the serum like wine.
Love is uplifting, and bare, taking you swiftly.
August 1, 2011
Jul 2011 · 1.0k
Harmonium
Emanuel Martinez Jul 2011
No hoot, mute the flute.
No sweet music oozing out of the muse.
Orchestra is playing another tune.

Desperate sounds are coming out the pipes.
Chasing a different melody we can't sing.

Vocal chords are broken.
The voice of angels unrecognizable.
The ***** is missing keys.

Instruments are rusty and old.
We can't hear but whimpering is in the air.
For their struggling to push their share.

Been broken for far too long.
Don't know when the chaos of sound will come undone.
Disappeared harmonium is merely impossible to rescue.
July 30, 2011
Jul 2011 · 1.2k
Get Ready to Ramble
Emanuel Martinez Jul 2011
Get ready to ramble no time to scramble.
Fumble, stumble, or tumble and you will crumble.
Stand stable and be the probable trouble.

Get ready to ramble no time to scramble.
Cradle the brothel and blood you will satchel.
Straddle the mantle of ease and squeeze.
It will handle the pressure before you flee.

Get ready to ramble no time to scramble.
Stop the babble and label the cards on the table.
Look at yourself and separate the feeble from the able.
Prove you're trouble, disable the fable.

Double the effort, don't be too noble.
Hackle the pain, insecurity shackle it too.

Get ready to ramble no time to scramble.
Fortune or doom be weapon not wound.
July 30, 2011
Emanuel Martinez Jul 2011
Aiming to lay claim to light.
But hiding under the cove.
A landslide is between darkness and light.
Probably can make it.
But there's a chance rocks will threaten the attempt.
Making the brave fall prey to fate.

Prime is time for crime.
Capture lucidity before insanity takes toll.
No rules or laws searching for something good.

Victims try your lives at discord.
Climb out before debris covers the only way out.
Pray light may stay at bay.
Back out the stark dark before you lack heart.
Bright light might right your plight.

Aiming to lay claim to light.
But hiding under the cove.
A landslide is between darkness and light.

Attempting to leave thoughts in the deep.
Clinging to your feet.
They struggle and you pain in the fight out.

Cunning memories come hunt you out of the darkness.
Don't give up thoughts of better days.
Tying wailing thoughts to the walls.
Run, heave them, leave them to save one.
You
July 29, 2011
Jul 2011 · 1.6k
Morning Sunset
Emanuel Martinez Jul 2011
Trouble through calmness
Fancy of simplicity
Smiling through sadness

Just a little antithetical
Mere dislocation and unison
Sewing our lives apart

Burning because we are in love
Thirsting for no more feeling
We're disgusted at being so fed up

Prying from the freedom
Running and crying from trying and safety
We're alone while we're together

Noise against the silence
Kisses and shots from a gun
the time is going on pause

Just a little antithetical
Mere dislocation and unison
Sewing our lives apart

Morning sunset
It's the beginning of life
But the end is dawning

Quickness not too far behind
The end makes us scramble
For some semblance of stability

Looking for what is not lost
We await for the night's sunrise
July 28, 2011
Jul 2011 · 1.1k
To Find A Bond
Emanuel Martinez Jul 2011
Gasping for missing air.
Trailing a tittering dream.
Reality of independence shattering.

No longer on my own.
Loneliness is settling down.
We're moving on.
But I never learned how to survive on my own.

Rose buds refusing to bloom without a sliver of blood.
Shaping diamonds like land mines dangerous to forge.
The true wealth of our friendship is fine and fair.
Just got to thread it without breaking the silk.
July 26, 2011
Jul 2011 · 1.8k
Unanswered Salutations
Emanuel Martinez Jul 2011
Good morning, good evening, good night.
If only one person to send this to.
They've no care for many that care say it to them.
Mute are half the expressions in my mind.
Fighting not to wonder my place.
Where may I fall, how can I tell.

Its only dementia to think I'm just an afterthought.
Surely, I know I'm more than that.
Or am I only debris awaiting to be salvaged and rebuilt.

Trying is not a crime.
But prying from thine time is grim.
Walking the streets with my feet and mind doesn't assail the pain.

Yes I've committed a crime
but sure HE wont leave me no day alone.
Not even the one YOU sent
To rest my head on is always there.
Not even my friend, to no one I can lay it on them.

Working favors those are all the words
The exchange of tongues use
No one really cares if this is
A real good morning, good evening, or good night.
Its just a prefix or suffix for the favor they've asked.
For there's no answer soon, later, or after
If I just say it because I meant to say it.

Good morning, good evening, good night.
Guess its avoidance of the void in the meaningfulness of such words.
If someone cared and I needed you to respond
Guess its better not to lead a farce and leave me in silence.
July 24, 2011
Jul 2011 · 840
The Beautiful Lane
Emanuel Martinez Jul 2011
Its the end of the road.
We built bridges in our minds.
Conspiring aspirations like foundations.
Smashing walls, wallowing dreams down.
Be not afraid of the future.
Its no promenade walking down the beautiful lane.

Trying to claim aim to pain.
Not aloud but in silence.
We're not insane trying to fain happiness and fear.
Confusing misery with living we lose the beautiful lane.

Not dying, crying, just trying lying.
Until we truly feel like laying praying for peace.
Tears, the fears of years, conceal these eyes.
Imagination creation in hibernation.
Our thoughts are starting to wonder how to spiral.
Faded, jaded, weathered and tired we traded
Our solid ground for the soundness of the beautiful lane.
July 25, 2011
Jun 2011 · 806
The Depth of Loneliness
Emanuel Martinez Jun 2011
You are all alone
No one to return to

There's an endless hole
And you just dug your own place

There's no way to trace
True pride and joy from anyone for you

Mistakes like permanent ink
No lifetime can truly rid their stain

Genuine caress is hard to find
For the one you had propriety over
You ran away from and gave up for free

Now, the only rock you cling to
Seems to be in faulty ground

At times streams of tears rushing through
Seem to threaten the holding on

Trying to be careful not to fall
You become numb, afraid of change
Yet falling seems like the only comfort
for landing is always assured
June 13, 2011
Jun 2011 · 1.8k
Christmas Epiphany
Emanuel Martinez Jun 2011
There is someone who I love
Someone who hurt this Christmas
And there are many others out there
Who are bereft of the brightest warmest sentiments the heart can experience

While the rest of us are ignorant of these happenings
All wrapped up in presents and drinking cheers
We fall short of being grateful for having somewhere to belong

For some the winter in their hearts is not nearly over when the holiday season is over
They are hurt from within and have yet to find somewhere to belong

It is sadness which confines me
The thought that my loved one goes sick
From within every Christmas

To think the winters in my love's soul
Are but shared by so many around the world
Yet the rest of us are careless, selfish and blinded by our needs

How many Christmases and winters would I spend in hurt and suffering
Just so that the one I love felt right at home for one Christmas night

How forgetful are we that a warm room and a petty meal
Might be a human necessity to subsist through the winter
But love and a sense of belonging is all that keeps us alive

We can not afford to not touch lives
And share our love and kindness with everyone

My loved one, if you ever fear you're alone
Don't worry God knows where you belong
If anything in my heart there is a place for you

If you feel alone you can belong with me
Strangers and enemies if you feel alone you can belong with me

Let us all be fearless in our efforts to share our blessings
We can not afford to not let others know they belong with us

It is a vicarious pain which I have come to assimilate as my own
The hurt which the one I love feels at times
And which many others feel all the same

The world is full of another type of hunger and yearning
Thus we shall not weaver in a journey
To help others find meaningfulness in their lives
And help them feel like they belong

If I could only accomplish to make the one I love feel a sense of belonging...

And if you feel like you can't make another feel like they belong
Because you yourself feel alone in this world
Please never give up the fight

Look within your self and know
There is someone out there like me
Yearning and waiting to let you know
Here...you are loved
Here...you are meaningful
Here...you belong

Look at a stranger's eyes and smile
Look within in their soul and find solace in their existence

There are more than six billion souls out there
And although on the outside we seem different
In the end we are all connected and we belong
December 26, 2010
Jun 2011 · 816
The Soul of Our Lives
Emanuel Martinez Jun 2011
My heart painless
My soul boundless

Life no longer waiting on me
Ready to run
Ready to fall in love endlessly

Joy awaits at every corner
And I am ready to find it

Laughter's tune in my mind
A perfect melody
Soothing sound to the soul
No other sound brings more joy

Peace crawls in around me
Wild vine it surrounds me

Fragrance of happiness
Its trace confines me

Soul begs to be released

Life is a passage full of thirst
and soul refuses to be an empty basin

Give it love, give it hope, give it life
And it will sore
2010
Jun 2011 · 790
The One
Emanuel Martinez Jun 2011
Just call me whatever
But more importantly
Can I call you
Sweetheart, lover, the one

Can I look into those eyes
call them beautiful
Stare at them with warmth

Can I put my arms around you
Hold you and embrace you
Till again I am fully recharged

Can I stand next to you
Admire you because I look up to you
and just smile when our eyes meet

Just call me whatever
But more importantly
Can I call you
Sweetheart, lover, the one

Can I tell you a silly joke
So we can share a smile
crack up with tears of joy

Can I ask you a question
So I can hear your beautiful voice
And learn something too

Can I pretend to be in trouble
So you can come to my rescue

Just call me whatever
But more importantly
Can I call you
Sweet heart, lover, the one
Jun 2011 · 1.2k
The Way You Make Me Feel
Emanuel Martinez Jun 2011
You make me feel vulnerable
Don’t know if I can trust myself with you
But I want to be there for you
So I will bring down my guard
Just hope you don’t break me from within

We’re both alone and we need someone
Life is not certain and I may not be for you
But I need to put myself out there for you

Feelings are not always well defined
More often their blurry and hard to find
But maybe with you they will become clear

The world is waiting for me to fight
And I need someone to help me try
Maybe you can help me through it

If life takes us different ways
It’s quite alright
But I can’t live with myself
If I don’t try this once with you

My heart is guarded by politics of the mind
My feelings struggle with rational thoughts
I should portray a certain image to everyone
So I can’t really show you how I feel
Though when around you I feel like holding you close
And not let time pass because I feel at ease

I feel you need someone
To be there to catch you
When you fall down hard
I want to be that person
A pillar that holds you
And builds you up

I feel that yearning in your soul
You think you’re self sufficient
But why don’t you rely on me
I want you to know
I want to be there for you

It’s okay to let yourself go
The world is not perfect
And some say you may fall
If you don’t prepare yourself
But there is beauty
In seeing the good of mankind

If your heart really seeks it
Then you will find someone
Whom you can rely on
It may not be me, but it could be me
My heart yearns to fill your void

I come without hidden agendas
And I want you to be complete within
I don’t know what you want
If you want me at all

I offer you a fort of solitude in my heart
And even if we stay only friends
I want to be there for you

And I cannot articulate a perfect way how to say
You inspire me and you empower me
I feel inadequate in your eyes
And I want to be so much better for you
Just being next to you I feel can bring about growth

I don’t know if our futures intertwine
But you are one special person that confounds me
October 27, 2010
Jun 2011 · 1.0k
True Love
Emanuel Martinez Jun 2011
True love is innocent
True love is beautiful

It's a touch without malice
A caress like velvet
Illustrating only true emotions

True love is innocent
True love is full of joy and happiness
When eyes glimmer brightly
And there are no false pretenses
Hidden in their soul
But Only pure intentions
June 24, 2010
Jun 2011 · 534
Labor of Love
Emanuel Martinez Jun 2011
It is a labor of love
That which I work

You ignore me
And you don't respond

I say, I love you
And you seem hollow
Take it lightly
That's all you can do

So afraid to know that is real
Thus you shunt me aside

Is this thing one sided!
No, I know that you need me
I want you to need me
I need you to need me

It is a labor of love
Which I will keep braking my back for

For some it takes a lifetime to fully fall in love
And to find a place to belong

Call me naive
But I think I've found a place of my own
In your heart

It is a labor of love
Which I will sweat through tears and blood

I wont rest until I've made you understand
There's only place for you in my heart

No matter if it brakes my heart
It is a labor of love
Which I will work over for your heart
January 9, 2011
Jun 2011 · 707
(Let Us) Suspend It In Time
Emanuel Martinez Jun 2011
Don't ruin the moment
We have a whole semester
To dismantle this ticking bomb
Surely we wont let it explode

Just smile at me and feel at ease
Don't occupy yourself with breaking my heart
There is plenty of time left to take jabs

Look at my eyes and for a moment
See the love in my soul
Don't deny me your warmth just yet
There is plenty of time to refuse my hugs

I know you'll soon be leaving my side
Is not you,is not me, its destiny tearing us apart
Even if you still loved me then
We'll be far apart

Its killing me inside
I want to be selfish for your love
Though I got to come to terms

I must let you go
But dont let me down so hard so soon
We have plenty of time to fall

Please give me
The best months of my life
And then you can leave
Make it seem like a dream
And then we can wake

Why end it so soon
When you know we'll be seeing each other
For a few months more

If we were meant to be
Than we will make it, far or near
But for now, can we please live in this happiness
Let us suspend it in time
January 8, 2011
Jun 2011 · 1.2k
Contemplating Night
Emanuel Martinez Jun 2011
Riding on the moon
My name is heard
Trying not be blue

The tide of life is high
Sounds of rationality become drowned
By the thoughts of disbelief

Beauty is really overwhelming
Dreaming is a tool for living
Surviving is merely all that is possible

Tonight the breeze of the night
Will cradle the thoughts of my pain
Beauty of the moon will transfix this being
All that will remain is solemness and calm

The shallowness of the frame
Now a day the gray cannot forget the crime
Ease of mind, for that there is time
Emanuel Martinez Jun 2011
There's a void for the intellectual when poor
Awareness only makes it worse

Knowing the socio-political mechanism
Controlling us and keeping our physical bodies bound
Only begs our mind to give up its emancipationist stronghold

The Spirit is only torn between
A socio-politically created reality
And the dis-associated self-edification of blind opportunity and hope

Becoming politically and sociologically aware
Of our "selves" within the context
Of our society is dangerous
Crippling, knowing the power behind the scenes

Submission corners an individual into indoctrination
Amorality seems to be the make-up of the seemingly strong
When every fiber of morality is subtly stolen
To assimilate into or right the wrong
Of the ******* up socio-political mechanism of our world
Either way, there's no way out
You're always tainted with the plague of amorality

The spirit is bought and sold
For the commercialization of it is dehumanizing to all

Any which way it can be analyzed
The rationality of the mind
Is dismantled piece by piece
Until it is absent from coherent thought

Knowledge is a weapon dangerous to the enemy
As well as the self
For truth is a burden deadly to the bound
By Disenfranchisement
May 2011 · 544
Temporary Departure
Emanuel Martinez May 2011
Oceans of blue wash my tears away
Pain, torture only implores
Voids inside tearing up the seams
For emptiness has insufficient space

Languishing screams in their silence
Deafening to thoughts they threaten to be
Sadness, endless strokes blemishing the soul

Tie my dreams and drag them down till they drown
Heart halt in your meandering, not another blow
Love my wicked, don’t torment my youth

This face is becoming hallow and grave
All I want is stillness and peace, but alas it cannot be
Time is stealing everything from me
Mar 2011 · 719
The Poison in My Ears
Emanuel Martinez Mar 2011
Deafening, will your voice become
Poison entering my ears
Rather make them bleed
With thundering melodies all around

For no excuses will erase
Your slithering thoughts
Trying to hide behind your mind

Gather my insecurities
And throw them in my face
Then you go play your games
Expecting me to give way
Telling me, “very be docile to my words!”

But you got me wasting time
No matter what happens,
You tell me,
“Sacrifice your time to prove your worth”

Deafening will your voice become
Poison entering my ears
Rather make them bleed
With thundering melodies all around

Master puppeteer you must be
For you got me thinking I’m insane
And I’m trembling with
Hot vile churning through my mind

Shatter every last bit of me
Take the part that belongs to you
And shred it with the sharpness of your tongue

Sickness will drown you
For being so brazen with my pain
My wounds will breathe through your rejection
Hate me for being me

Shallow waters will succumb
The heat of ignorance will make them
Fruitless and dry, and too late
You will see the springs of my heart
March 14, 2011
Mar 2011 · 2.0k
The Self
Emanuel Martinez Mar 2011
Self-breed hatred so easily suppressed
Taunted by the world, it’s waiting to explode
No, there’s no true taste, we’re only meandering
Listening to the menacing roar begging
To be given breath to materialize

Subtle commentary begins to eat at the flesh of self-belief
Identity crises momentarily paralyze audacity’s ammunition
True sights of self-aesthetic-beauty tremble
Diminishing that part of self-worth
Looming attacks threaten to pour over and reduce
The value of internal splendor for it’s seemingly of no use

Every praise never given to the self but to someone else
A constant crack at the foundation of self-love, it subconsciously ensures
She and she and she and she are said to be wonderful, but never the self

Realization that from any angle the self is not good enough
Leaves the mind discombobulated for lifelong sentiments of inadequacy
Seems to be the only route

Unconscious self denigration provokes false sense of value
For the true inner wealth in self-worth is sullied and unidentifiable

But the self is not merely self-loath and harboring of inadequacy
For goodness in abundance is found a few peals away from the layers of insecurity
March 6, 2011
Jan 2011 · 2.2k
Don't Criticize
Emanuel Martinez Jan 2011
Don't criticize, don't criticize that man
For enjoying something you deem a waste of time

Let him have something for himself

In our petty little lives
There is nothing keeping us going

Taking care of a wife and children
That is the only duty he is obliged to

Mother and wife must give up her life
Once that child is born
There is no greater purpose than for her to see that child through

The only thing giving them hope
Is the love hanging by a thread
And when there is no faith hope tends to snap

Don't criticize, don't criticize them
For seeming different than you

Let them have something for themselves
If it means keeping them alive

Working double shifts,
Overworked and underpaid
Her hands are always in pain

And you dare snare at her
Because she doesn't dress as well as you

Never home and undernourished
He is only trying to provide for his home
By being at work day and night
Feeding himself is only secondary to the hunger of his child

Don't criticize, don't criticize me
For being wrong, I will fall down to my knees

Let me have something for myself
If it means keeping me alive
January 2011
Dec 2010 · 576
Trapped Within
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
Don't have own voice
Its much too small
But wants to shout

Skies are filled with blue
But don't really see it
Cause sight is blind to light

Emotions almost burst out
But fears keep them trapped
so their bottled up inside

Music fills the atmosphere
But don't really hear it
Cause beautiful sounds are tuned out

Love wants to shine
Though it wont be let out
Cause mind demands control

Its a jar of jumbled up treasures
All beautiful but trapped within
October 6, 2010
Dec 2010 · 1.7k
Sensitive Child
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
Sensitive child
Feint-hearted

Its too hard
Can't take it
Can't see it
Wont hear it

The sight of hatred
Makes him pain

How can someone
Knowingly cause others pain
To feel happiness of their own
December 3, 2010
Dec 2010 · 530
The Other Side of the World
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
So of course
I thought I'd make a difference

People would be taking vacations on the moon by then
and cars would be flying like plains

I'd be famous and my friends too
For being who we are

There'd be one country
in the whole wide world

We'd all say hi in Chinese,
Adios in fransçais,
Et comment ça va in Benghali

We'd all like each other
and we wouldn't even know why

Hating would be out of style
We'd be laughing all the while

I'd be one of the wealthiest people in the world
Because the newest currency would be happiness
November 9, 2010
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
God don't leave me behind

I'm not a ******
And I'm no thief

You show me love
Through every way
You know how

And ignore you, all the same
I don't acknowledge you as much as I should
Yet you bless me

I try to mend broken hearts
I care for those who don't care about themselves
I strive to make this world a better place

Isn't that enough to hear at least a word

I wished I loved you as much as my lover does
But I don't want to love you because I'm afraid my lover will eventually leave me if I soon don't

Although not loud enough to drown my praise and love for you
Small thoughts linger in my mind wondering if there's anyone out there hearing my pleas

I want to edify people's lives
But what good am I without you
But all the same I ain't no saint or priest

Can I deal with not believing in you?
If not you, than who or what

I'm distraught, and falling apart
Yet when I forget to remember you are there
I seem to be alright

What if I get to the point where you completely leave my mind
Nonsense, hope I fear not that thought

Strip me down and take me bare
Take everything away from me
And give it to someone who deserves it more
Perhaps my lover is overdue for your bliss

I know I ain't no one to demand you show yourself to me

Make me miserable and take me on a search
Trouble me until you show me light or let me die

I don't want to be voluntary to your love
You must force me to focus my love on you and no one else

How can this burning love and pain for humanity
Be randomly in my soul
Surely, there's something that's pushing me there
And that has to be you

My carnal body sins and I'm ashamed
But if you really want to show your love
Control my mind

My body ain't worth a dime
But my soul screams I want out!
There is a spirit in me and its searching for that place it belongs

The thought of a mechanism in the psychology of my mind
Faintly lingers while I research myself

Pure intentions then fight with cynicism invading the border lines

But how can man manufacture the soul
Am I being cynical for thinking maybe someone has or soon will

God is there a point in not believing in anything
Converting and finding myself in such a way is just a game

How can there be meaningfulness and purpose without faith
You have to be real but why don't I consider you in everything I do

Life is going so fast
I stray away from hearing
Music praising your name
Because I'm ashamed that I haven't prayed today

Suddenly I get annoyed
Why? Because I'm reminded to thank you for keeping me alive

You should be the center of my day
I'm sorry
In your love I want to change

And I don't want to feel guilty about being with the one I love

God don't leave me behind
December 10, 2010
Dec 2010 · 473
Our Only Color
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
I love the color of your skin
the only color that my heart can see
Is the one that we both share

No matter if you're purple and I'm green
No matter how much it seems that we differ
We are both one color

It's the color of love
It's the color of love
Which makes us all the same

It's who we are
Not what we are
that draws the line of definition

It's the color of our character
It's the color of our character
Which tells us who is different
And who is the same

It's the way that we decide to live side by side
and show a gesture of love to our brethren
or get away and annihilate the other side with signs of hatred
Which confuses us about our true colors
the ones we show when we radiate with love and kindness

It's the color of smiles
It's the color of smiles
that makes us forget differences and complexities
and brings us together just to have a good time

It's the color of peace
that we should try to portray
because in the real world
there is no black or white
there is only true colors, the ones we show
the one we share
June 14, 2009
Dec 2010 · 649
Life, You Can't Take Me
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
Time, try and revenge me
Love, bereft me
Take control and break me

Money, try and trick me
Recognition, deceit me
Take control and addict me

I’ll be laughing
Even before you realize
You can’t take me

Anger, come try and fill me
Hatred, contend with me
Take control and blind me

Loneliness, try and consume me
Fear, run me down and corner me
Take control and weaken me

I’ll be laughing
Even before you realize
You can’t take me

Life, take care of me
Take a bite out of me
And destroy me

I'll be gone
Before you can shout glory
December 9, 2010
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
It is something about the human condition

When so immersed in ourselves, we are
Remembering not, we are not alone
Growing barriers, we do allow

Self sufficient, we tend to become
And those around us are no longer there
As with a world of private problems,we are engulfed

It is something about the human condition

When alone in this world, we feel
Though there are more than six billion souls yearning
For a sense of belonging

Thus hopeless, we go through the journey alone
and on a rampage, is the fear
That separates our soul from true happiness

It is something about the human condition

When alone, we think we are
Though love is boundless
Waiting for seekers
If we'd only be willing to find it

Lost in isolation
Is left, the beauty we can share
Because too afraid, we are
To the world, let it show

The human condition
Not the same for everyone
We think
It's inevitable to feel alone
We can't all belong
Togetherness, now there's something wrong

Yet tears, we all cry
And smiles, we all show

It's something about the human condition
We all share
December 3, 2010
Dec 2010 · 574
Friends 'Till The End?
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
I love you

But I don't even miss you
Known each other for years
but life has finally led us apart

Suddenly your confused
Why do I love you so much
When you're so different than I

Can this friendship withstand
The test of a passing time

We're so far apart
We enjoy a laugh with someone else
And we forget to text back
Because were having a good time

I love you, I guess
Its been so long how could I not
But I don't even miss you
When I have to go out there alone
having an adventure everyday

You're no longer there
Beside every step I take
I used to think it would be impossible
Without you being there by my side
Thought I would be lost

Truth is I'm fine going at it alone
I'm spreading my wings and we're drifting apart

But don't worry this friendship is still intact
We ain't going nowhere

And even if we cease being friends
You will always be a part of my heart
November 2, 2010
Dec 2010 · 628
Life and Happiness
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
Happiness makes my face light up and smile
Even when the days are lousy
And the skies are really cloudy
All I wanna do is smile at you

Make the music bounce
And the atmosphere loud
Laughter is what fills the perfect soul
spirit wants to shout everything is alright

Happiness makes my face
Light up and smile
Suddenly I'm at the cliff
And I'm making a free-fall for the ground
The air around me is full of joy and I breath it in!
Suddenly you think I'm nuts
Because there's a smile plastered on my face

Well life is full of little moments
Can't help but contemplate
They should be taken with a smile
And a little ease of mind
2010
Dec 2010 · 7.7k
Beyond Social Classes
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
I am blind
And I ain't blind
To the different social classes
And their faces
I try and try to be impartial
But my fears and preconceptions
Give way to prejudice of thought

Love and unity fill my mind
Yet when its time
To effect some change
My feet quiver
And words can't formulate

I want to tell my brethren
you are special to me
and I love you just the same
As anybody else
But I'm scared of what he will respond
Will he reject me as we are not the same
Will he embrace me and bring forth a seed of change

I am blind
And I ain't blind
To the disdain classes afford one another
Man threatens to discard the fact we're all the same

So I wonder
Can we look beyond facades
Strip it all down to our core

Don't we all want to feel the same
Maybe we can toughen up and take down the ranks
That impede us from becoming one-another's friend
2010
Dec 2010 · 1.2k
Peace Will Reign
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
Peace will reign
Peace will reign
Peace will reign

When clouds cover the sun
And cold is what you feel
Inside and out
Rays of light
Will sweep in
And make you warm

When hatred seems to be all around
And hearts deteriorate with pain
love will come restore them all

Peace will reign
Peace will reign
Peace will reign

When ignoring the signs
And he calls your name
You will find Him
In your own life, all along

When selfish beings
Leading short sad lives
will realize that living
for everyone but themselves
Will fill that void
And elongate their days

Peace will reign
Peace will reign
Peace will reign
Dec 2010 · 844
Girl
Emanuel Martinez Dec 2010
You're pretty
You're pretty awesome
Girl you glow

You're pretty
You're pretty cool
Girl everyone wants you around

You're pretty
You're pretty smart
Girl you'll make it far

No,  no one compares
You're special to me
No one compares
2010
Nov 2010 · 614
Confliction
Emanuel Martinez Nov 2010
Sometimes got to feel
A little hopeful
But end up disappointed

Got to feel a little happy
But instead end up sour

Done a lot to date
Accomplished and recognized
You'd think that be enough

Mask up troubles
Blur them out of mind
And just be proud

But if only one could settle
Without peace of mind
2009
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