Leocardo Reis

Leocardo Reis Apr 2021

Tomorrow

Flashes of the past,
like light flickering
from a nearby stream,
are a tacit reminder
of all that I could have been.

#past #reminder

Leocardo Reis Mar 2021

She is with
another man
but she is alive!
she exists!
to have found her
makes me feel as though
all is well in the world.

#discovery #found

Leocardo Reis Mar 2021

Melancholy

I will always remember you
Just like
How an old library book remembers
Coffee stains.

#memory #remember #melancholy #coffeee

Leocardo Reis Dec 2020

A wish

I wished a wish
upon a star,
a wish so small
on such so far.
I won't be sad if
it does not come true,
to have is a wish
is something too.

#wish

Leocardo Reis Dec 2020

An act of love

On the bus ride home
I woke up
with my face resting
against the shoulder
of a stranger.

#love #compassion #stranger

Leocardo Reis Dec 2020

Self reflection

I look at my poems
and find
that they are
worth writing
but not
reading.

#self #reflection #poetry #writing

Leocardo Reis Nov 2020

The despair of a dead fish

I peered into a sink
and a fish
glared
blankly
at me.

such dull
lifeless eyes
struck me with
a hint of
fatalistic humour,
as if asking me
"what is for dinner?"

#fatalism #dead #fish