I was not born a

poet.

I was broken into

one.


*Sandoval

You said you

were made to

swim free;

but, my darling

I'm a harbor not

the sea..


*Sandoval

To have found you within a million galaxies was already magical enough.

*-Sandoval

You begged me,

to fall in love with the
moon.

So I could get

accustomed to having all of
you,

but then, none
at all too..


*Sandoval

I was an infant soul.

He came to me in my dreams
as a lullaby only I could sing.

And he watched as I swiftly
rocked myself into a romance

only him and I could sway to.


Sandoval

I am not a princess
that needs to be saved.

I am a broken warrior,
a Valkyrie in distress.

An echo of a forgotten
strength that always comes

back in vigorous ways.

Sandoval

She
looked for
love in
closed lips;
being deaf
to all the
rest calling
out
her name.

Sandoval

The devil
exists;

he's a pair of
green eyes,

and a 2 AM text

message in the
dark..


*Sandoval

I tore down every bridge,
and every wall to let you in.

I dried lakes, rivers, oceans,
to save you from drowning.

I found myself,
draining in weakness to strengthen you.

You became powerful, you became immortal,
you became my god.

Now I clench onto this sadness of mine.
The loneliness you left behind.

Its the only thing that reminds me,
our story was once alive.

Its my safe place.
When you're gone,

and I need a muse to help
bleed all this pain out.

Like tonight,
when writing about the moon,
can no longer help me survive.


*Sandoval

You are as deep as i am in the universe, for the constellations in your eyes know no boundaries. Your soul which moves your hands and squints your eyes, was made up of fallen stars and  burnt out suns. Your mind which no other will ever fathom, is connected to mine through silent words, and screaming galaxies.
*-Sandoval

Poetry* has never hurt like this before. I beg of you, drown this

hurt, and **** it with your last  touch. Touch my skin with your lips, let them rest against my bare neck. And let me drown in

you as well the disillusionment of a love  separated by the stars. Spare me one last look, tame in me this fire that yearns for you,

this fire that can't be put out.  Save me. From myself, one last night, before we say goodbye.


*Sandoval

They tried to break me, but this

blood that runs in me, is made of ink.

And these unbreakable bones, are made of poetry.


*Sandoval

Be happy with her.

Leave me alone to die,
with your broken song still inside of me.

Though its melody is now old,
and out of tune.

It still remains my favorite
sound.

*Sandoval

I am not paradise.
I am a broken angel.

A featherless pair of wings
and a burnt out halo

this is what you'll get
with me.

Sandoval

And, I'll think of you. Through syllables of broken words, through my

silences that only scream come back. I'll remember  you as the

flower that grew out of winter and misses its spring petals.

-*sandoval

I bleed
words

not blood;

so if you hurt me,

I'll scar
verses,

not wounds.


*Sandoval

And if you
silence me,
let it be from
your eyes
intertwining
into mine
like two
constellations
traveling through
time.


Sandoval

He's the devil;
reincarnated in a teasing smile.
He's hell running around
with the taste of caution
on his lips.
His sinful eyes, and
coward touch  
overrule a thousand kingdoms
in paradise.
He's my only eternity,
the only pair of eyes I want
to remember when I'm stranded
in that sweltering darkness
everyone fears so much.
Hes a million sunsets giving life to an
eternal moonlight, though his
sunrises will never be mine to own,
his fickle moon sets will
always guide me back to


him..



*Sandoval

I* saw my reflection in the glass that I lifted to my face. It was the

reflection of a drunken disappointment,  and this red wine tasted

like  loneliness and sad  poetry. I don't know what you did to

me, but

Hemingway,  Neruda and Fitzgerald all went down in history,

and I'm starting to understand why. Unrequited love. One  more sip

and the next drunken  poet is me.


*-Sandoval

Her soul whispered tales about the moon, her essence carried this luminous dust as if she came from the stars. As if the sun had fallen in love with her and would brighten skies everyday just to find her.
*-Sandoval

I feel myself forgotten, like a lost voyage with no destination.


*Sandoval

But it was my fault
thinking we could build statues out of dust
we dissolved with the wind
and when autumn came
we became ruins inhabited by
the memories of May.


Sandoval

I listen to the sound
of the waves.

Looking for a clue,
an echo of your silence.

And I patiently
wait for you.

Like Amphitrite
waited for Poseidon.

*Sandoval

"I love  you to the earth and back." Said the moon to the sun as they met every dawn and every dusk.

Ill be my own
poet.
I need no other
words
that are not my
own,
telling me of all
the greatness
inside my star
gasping
soul.


*Sandoval

Poor little
Mexican
girl;
in love
with the all
American
boy..


-Sandoval

We defied our darkness.

Like Alpherg and Antares;

together with their decaying light,

they became stronger than a million suns.


*Sandoval

Silence* doesn't ****,

but oh,

how does it

deceive us.

*Sandoval

Thirty seven thousand feet,
in the air.

Scattered towns
look like tiny galaxies in the night sky.

I could write a thousand poems.

But all I can think of is
the magic in your eyes.

*Sandoval

You can mend a

broken heart,

but never with the same

string twice.


*Sandoval

He was a blank book.

With my ink of sonnets,

I gave him a story,
syllables full of stars.

I made him
readable, interesting, intriguing.

But, the last thing that ever crossed my mind,

was that sitting there,
on that shelf, I also made him

reachable.


*Sandoval

I feel dead inside, as if someone put their hands inside my soul and

ripped it from me whole. You took everything and left nothing in
return. I want my life back, I want to breathe again, I want to feel

alive again. I've been dead since you left. Now tell me beautiful

tragedy, if I look to the sky, and the bare moon does not cry your
absence inside these four walls, then who will mourn your loss.

Who will break down inside and write your name in the still of

the night, with nightmares made of stars, if not me, then who.

*Sandoval

It did hurt, it hurt her like hell. His muted thoughts that cut her

flesh of poetry open with silent knives, yet what he didn't know is

that, with his silences, he was only teaching her to live without

him. He was her cocoon, but it was too late... She was

becoming a butterfly. And with her wings of poetry she would

soon learn how to fly. And, he will break.. and it will hurt him

see her leave but it will be too late, she wont look back, for she will

be free.


*-Sandoval

Love me in black or white.
I'm sorry sir,
but grey is not
compatible with my heart..


Sandoval

It's as if god drained my most perfect daydream. Gave it a

breath  and laid you right beside me.


*-Sandoval

Time* always
takes,

but never
gives.

And if you ask me,
what you were to me.

you were a watch on my
wrist.


*Sandoval

Daydreams are
dangerous;

they carry this false
happiness

that confuses our anxiety.
Then they leave us,

vulnerable to cope
with our reality.

Sandoval

I bleed words not blood.


So, if you hurt me. I'll scar

verses not wounds.

*Sandoval

I had daydreams about you. White like the crest of a wave,

sweet like the waters of a lake.  Free like the rays of the moon on

your soul.

*-Sandoval

I've seen you

dancing, to rhythm

of the moon.

I wonder, if I were up there,

would you have loved me too..


*Sandoval

Do not tell me,

that the moon
is yours to own.

Then run away when
the sun leaves the

earth.


*Sandoval

I am so alone, but you are so blind.

There's plenty in this world that seek solace in

my words.  They come to me, play with the tangles

in my hair, but you, distant cold you, the only one I

have eyes for, just don't care to be my muse.

*Sandoval

Let only death
take your
lingering scent
away from me,
for there are no
ethereal
greetings,
without soul aching
absences..

Sandoval

Isn't it cruel?
How destiny
teases our future.
Having had
tall wooden ships,
we settled for

paper boats.

Sandoval

I wanted to give you
galaxies,
you wanted to give me
memories;
but baby, how could all this
love
just fit in this
box..?



*Sandoval

Time* always takes but never gives. And, if you ask me what you were to me. You were a watch on my wrist.

*-Sandoval

He* gave me in one look,


what a thousand sunsets


never could.


*Sandoval

It was like James Dean.  The only thing I've ever seen. That's made me feel as close to the moon, closer than the stars have ever been.
*-Sandoval

But your soul
and my soul
are sown together;

maybe not in
this world,
but in the stars,
in the air,
in other galaxies,

these strings
we carry are
eternal..


*Sandoval

She was the

type of girl

who breathed in stars, and

spit out

constellations.


*Sandoval