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 Aug 2016 Gabriel Roa
17th
like getting through the end of song you really enjoyed
like accidentally listening to someone's voice and thinking it's him
like a whistler on the subway
that takes you back to the moment
we first fell in love

you don't even try to see the light
you don't even try to look out
you don't want to

how does it feel
to burn your skin like this
to put your heart out
so easily
that anybody could just grab it
and take it away

maybe it doesn't feel like this
maybe I'll be there
as long as you keep your promises
and love me as my heart beats
 Aug 2016 Gabriel Roa
17th
your tiny kitten paws
your messy hair
your soft skin
your moles
your
you
 Jul 2016 Gabriel Roa
17th
no necesitábamos excusas para sentirnos solos
no necesitábamos acordes para armar nuestra melodía

necesitábamos razones para volver a nosotros mismos
necesitábamos esperar por una muestra
necesitábamos iluminar nuestra química
nuestra química no correspondida
llena de azulejos y brisas de verano

atosigando cada posibilidad de reencuentro
reencuentros frustrados rasguñados por anhelos
que ni siquiera intentaban ser hallados

así que mientras más intentemos correr
más frustrados se volverán nuestros planes de regresar
 Jul 2016 Gabriel Roa
17th
picnic
 Jul 2016 Gabriel Roa
17th
we packed and we left
the cherry blossom was not working for us
not anymore

we took peaches
and then you hurt yourself so bad
you needed four stitches

we took strawberries
and then my heart stopped caring

we took apples
[we took pears]

we took the love
we felt for ourselves
we were no longer there
 Jun 2016 Gabriel Roa
17th
abejas
 Jun 2016 Gabriel Roa
17th
seré obediente
intentaré levantarme temprano
haré que mis tobillos no suenen en la madrugada
dejaré de fumar y dejaré el café
sólo para poder redimirme de esos ojos otra vez

apagaré las luces antes de salir de la casa
limpiaré la cocina después de cocinar
no me haré daño
sólo para poder sumergirme en esa sonrisa una y otra vez

dormiré temprano
no malgastaré mi tiempo ni mi dinero
seguiré haciendo yoga
sólo para poder continuar viéndote cada noche al dormir


*so please, don't leave
 Jun 2016 Gabriel Roa
17th
bañar al perro

                       colar el café
          
                                            lavar la ropa
                                                          
                                                                  cocinar en la madrugada
                  
                                                                                                              *ser tuya
 Feb 2016 Gabriel Roa
17th
gloomy
 Feb 2016 Gabriel Roa
17th
I fell like a fool
like a fool for you
how much inspiration
you've ever given to me
I guess I will call you
"*****, philosophy and ****" from now on
you're such a cutie
as mellow as a sweet child
as talented as the fifth cellist from the string quartet
beautiful and new
as the flowers when they start to bloom
your voice and your laugh
thinking about it makes me sad
cause I know I can't have you
not that long
but that doesn't make me not to want you
even though I don't need you and you will only give me
that pain I've been craving to feel
I don't have any idea who was this meant for but I'm still laughing (well I do but I'm still wondering why I wrote this for him)
196 lb
average male weight
ego not included

156 lb
average female weight
although one spoken sentence hits like a ton of bricks

20 lb
unsaid words,
searing, left in your throat

10 lb
“It won’t happen again”
guns for vocal chords

40 lb
a dead car battery

25 lb
for every bullet he left inside her spirit

a scale says 167 pounds
body mass measured
heavy heart unaccounted

19.30 g
roughly the weight of a wedding ring
she’s seen three removed from three different fingers

1.5 g
enough for six rotations
enough to feel zero

1.5 oz
enough for a shot
take six to feel a hundred

10 million tons
the weight of a star

10 million tons
the thought of her

we are loaded
dense
filled

made-to-break
paper-made
carbon-bounded
­heart-strung
fire-resistant

the weight we carry is not the
numbers on the scale
we are much more than the pounds we gain
the aches that we hold
the tears that did not fall

living with a hallowed heart does not make it any less heavier

these light words were not meant for these paper limbs
gravity could care less

we are pressured
felt
squeezed
until broken
forevermore

built strong
lasts shortly
bulldozed by just one fallowed swoop
we are demolished

you could build your vessel as ravenous and as merciless as you can
only to be held down by the world
we are defied

measured
counted
hated
loved
we are
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