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564 · Jun 2016
Withering Rose
Oscar Ortiz Jun 2016
Seeping into the twilight sky
Each hue seen, my love thumping shy
But what color must I enshrine
To embrace thy hand in mine?

A breeze whispers cryptic to me
Words of thirst my heart need decree
But what promise must I consign
To embrace thy hand in mine?

The loneliness surrounding us
A deep-blue question to discuss
But what person must I design
To embrace thy hand in mine?

Ladylove, speak to me thy heart!
Before my spirit does depart
My soul to live, it gives high sign
To embrace thy hand in mine!
318 · Jun 2016
The Life We Seek
Oscar Ortiz Jun 2016
We seek
To live the perfect life
And we choose not, therefore,
To believe God is gone;
Once upon a time
We searched for the answers
The fires took to sleep;
Atop the corpses
Countless roses grow
In a world where
Peace
Overcomes
War
In a world where
Bloodshed is common
Only in books
And security is found
In all homes
Harmony is the laughingstock
For the Devil himself
But sown to our coats is the desire
To live the perfect life
We seek
Reverso Poem
263 · Jun 2016
In the Evening
Oscar Ortiz Jun 2016
Do you remember
                    The evening sun setting on the brow
                         You lied upon with concern?
                    Not for the darkness approaching us but
                         The sigh you refused to disavow
For me! Let my heart burn

Do you remember
                    How the blanket under our weight soaked
                         With tears of understanding?
                    Not even the splinters and bladed grains
                         Of grass and the rocks ripping provoked
For me! Let our hearts stay stranding

Do you remember
                    What cheek the absent streams took to smears
                         When my eyes and voice did frown?
                    Not did the maiden's hand shake with wetness
                         But instead cradled the forgone tears
For me! Let my heart drown
                         For I deserve not thee
To my love!

— The End —