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Maria Cordero Apr 2014
If it was 10 degrees warmer
I would take a midnight walk
To the corners of the city
And weep silently

If it was 5 degrees warmer
I would take a midnight run
To the edge of town
And profess my want of your touch

If it was 5 degrees colder
My legs would buckle
And my I would crumble down
From my beating heart

But this is the temperature I know
So I don't walk to ease my fears
I don't run to greet your lovely face
And I don't fall under the weight of my world

Instead I keep true to home and stay
On the edge of emotion
Swallowing my tears
Waiting for something to topple over
Maria Cordero Feb 2014
I can't stop thinking
About you.
My mind is cluttered

Your dark as day tresses
Your sweet-supple-spicy lips
The way your eyes turn from brown to blue in seconds
Whenever I have a single moment of self doubt

I can hear you, feel you
The raspy highs and lows
Your smooth callous caress
How you're both small and giant all at once
Squeezing me in your tender arms

And you know everything
How a ***** kitchen angers and frustrates me
But my room is messy as ****
And the litter hasn't been changed in a week
You won't know how you understand a girl
Who never understood herself

Yet, I can't see you
Like that dark winter night freshman year
You're an image I can't fully grasp
I swear I'm looking everywhere
The picture was always fuzzy

I don't know if I'll meet you
My faraway fading future memory
Until we meet again
My sweet
My dear
My love
Maria Cordero Jan 2014
You may not be the reason I cry
But you're the reason at this very moment

It's almost symbolic even

And you don't even notice that I'm looking at you with eyes of

Regret
Deceit
Love
& Honesty

Because it's not that I love you always
It's that I love you in this exact moment
Fully & completely
Love, like, crush, unrequited love, always, regret, deceit, love, honesty

Because who cares about the past, the moment you decide you want them to be yours and them theirs, their past and future become yours and if you cannot accept that...***** you
Maria Cordero Oct 2013
A moon pulses through the night
Orange, dusty, and cloudy
It tries to keep the lit run going

The moon pulses through the night
Little girls and boys, keep watch
The Moon might disappear and fall apart
Hold onto its promises, squeeze them

Hearts beat through the night
If it beats, it's strong
So nothing is wrong
Hearts don't disappear and fall apart

My moon barely pulses through the night
Maria Cordero Oct 2013
What's done is happened
Wonderful each time
But You need to leave

Please leave the scent of your skin
And Your wild hair
Your thoughts and dreams too
They inspire me like none other
That's a difficult quality to find
But You can leave

Leave Your tender touch
The beautiful toned muscle
Arching with every move
Toes curling, hair unfurling
Sheets tangled up in the heat
But You can leave
Maria Cordero Aug 2013
I'd rather cough blood
Than say your ****** **** name
You ruin everything
Maria Cordero Aug 2013
Am I beautiful enough?
For the wicked and the ******
To live without care
To meet expectations force-fed unto me

Am I beautiful enough?
To walk the hall and make jaws drop
To tempt Adam and live in Eden
To bring the Archangel to his knees

Am I beautiful enough?
To be in magazine spreads
To see my body in Times Square
To make all women turn green

Am I beautiful enough?
So intelligence does not matter
To be in the eye of the beholder
To be loved
*To be free
This poem is still a work in progress. The original was accidentally erased, so I quickly came up with an alternative...one I'm not yet fully satisfied with. (I might even change the title. In fact, I already have something in mind)

EDIT: I changed the title. It originally was "Am I Beautiful Enough?"
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