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135 · Jan 2020
Reflecting
Maria Etre Jan 2020
I have loved many times over
and yes differently
passionately, deeply,
hatefully, and drunkly
as F. Scott Fitzgerald said
but the toughest to love
was the person
in the mirror
135 · Feb 2020
A or B
Maria Etre Feb 2020
Why do I compare myself
to a love you'll always love?

When you clearly whisper
her name, in my presence
when I'm asleep
132 · Jan 2020
IES
Maria Etre Jan 2020
IES
I used to write daily
now I write dailies
131 · Mar 2020
Not So Rose-Colored Glasses
Maria Etre Mar 2020
I got a taste of what being loved felt
it was all nice
until he spoke
and broke the rose-colored glasses
that covered days
with
him
127 · Sep 2020
Pain
124 · Nov 2017
Winter
Maria Etre Nov 2017
I looked up
at the sky
only to see
my heart
migrating
with
the birds
124 · Feb 2018
Pull Me Closer
Maria Etre Feb 2018
Tug at my
heart strings
sing to me
our song
of 9 years
let me
tug at yours
and create
the greatest
duet
lovers have yet
to hear
123 · Jun 2020
Should I?
Maria Etre Jun 2020
I felt karma whisper,
"You thought I'd never visit?
Open the door."

Should I?
Could we be friends?
Did she stop by to say "HI"
or to throw my irresponsibility
on the table?
Better yet, throw my selfishness in my face?
117 · Feb 2020
I am Everything
Maria Etre Feb 2020
I slipped and fell from reality
Going down, I saw the silhouette
of myself waving back from the cliff of reality
getting smaller and smaller

My fall carved the air
with a bundle of chaos
dense with fear
and weightlessness at the same time

I am lost
between letting go and wanting to go
everybody goes at some point anyway  
between waving goodbye to what's better
and saying hello to what's bad
between loving to love, and loving being loved
or both,
I am lost between loneliness and aloneness
between confidence and bitchiness
between opening my heart and keeping it
and giving it to you, naked, want it?
between sobriety, and faking it
I am scared of changing and I am attracted to change
of walking away, when walking is my favorite hobby
I fear losing something, when there was nothing to begin with
I am addicted to turmoil, I lather my skin with recklessness
I inject my veins with the soothe intoxicating taste
instability
I question my lust for instability for chaos
for heartbreak and heart-mend
for unreciprocated love, for ... everything that doesn't make sense
I question my fabrication of a future, before I even say hi.

I am confidence wrapped in anxiety, that wears me like a gala dress
hugging my curves, with self-doubt
I am fake, a hypnotized being, programmed to smile
to blend, to speak less, to love less, love like that,
to compare, to compete
I am tired
115 · Jan 2020
MY COUNTRY
Maria Etre Jan 2020
TOGETHER
TO(GET)HER
BACK
Bring my Lebanon back.
#LebanonRevolts
115 · Feb 2020
That Good.
Maria Etre Feb 2020
You know that feeling
when you finish a poem
and smoke a cigarette?

That one.
115 · Feb 2020
Knock Knock
Maria Etre Feb 2020
Love,
is that
you?
Love is a joke, sometimes
110 · Jun 2020
.The End
Maria Etre Jun 2020
It feels like
there are only so many times a heart can break
until the pieces get so small
that putting it back together
will take a lifetime
109 · Feb 2020
Mislead
Maria Etre Feb 2020
Why is it goodbye
when there's
nothing good about bye?
101 · Nov 18
Of Poetry & Vodka
Maria Etre Nov 18
I drink it
straight

I write 'em straight
to the point
bold, curvy, squiggly,
pressured or light
and oh
so transparent

Liquid courage
inked in my vessels

soft introductions
******* bodies
the outros
are mostly
unexpected

but they all
deserve a cigarette
afterwards
93 · Mar 2020
Home Run
Maria Etre Mar 2020
I threw my heart at you
when my words
failed to move
you
90 · Jan 2020
Dress Up
Maria Etre Jan 2020
I tend to question niceness
for I always met it
dressed in something more like
slyness
89 · Jan 2020
Distrust
Maria Etre Jan 2020
Why are you still dressed
when I am fully naked in front of you?
The tense feeling of knowing they're hiding something when you have already given them your all.
88 · Jan 2020
Mathematics
Maria Etre Jan 2020
It's fine to ask for more
when you have nothing to lose.
76 · Feb 2020
Now What?
Maria Etre Feb 2020
My heart chose you as a friend
by my mind as a lover
73 · Feb 2020
Who Wins?
Maria Etre Feb 2020
You checkmate
but I was playing
a different game
64 · Jan 2020
Beyond the Face
Maria Etre Jan 2020
I was petting a cat on the streets
a woman passed me,
smiled
&
I
felt
her
humanity
53 · 21h
LikeWise
What a word
It is deep enough
and when said
at the right time
it changes the narrative
paths, worlds, hearts...

"LIKE"
Not only are we similar
but the emotions
the word has are light and heavy
enough to show the likeness, laced with love,
with a heartbeat, a mind-beat

And adding the word "wise"
Oouufff
you have to be wise
to use the word likewise -
because for you to be
similar you are at that mental wit
to say it, feel it, think it

"I (insert emotion) you so much"
"likewise"

Now,
that's a game-changer
Let's make
love
in wa(y)s
that
p(o)ets
fail
to p(u)t
in
words

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