Melanie Munoz

Melanie Munoz Jan 16

There's a lot about me I don't understand.
The world came crashing down, again
And I ignored it, again

I chose to listen to the rustling leaves,
The busy streets,
The Laughter and the joy
The whimpers and the pain,
Life.
I chose to live.

-Melanie Munoz

Sometimes ignoring your depression, anxiety, and lack of sleep means obsessing over things that often go unnoticed.

Melanie Munoz Jan 16

Mixed feelings

You were coffee cups and dark rooms,
Grey hues and poetry.

You were warm to the touch,
Burned like oak and green ivy

You were sweet like warm jazz,
Taste like soap and old candy

All the love you had left
Came from deep down inside me.

-Melanie Munoz

A better version of a poem I had written before

Jan 7

Pablo Neruda

XVII (I do not love you...)

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Melanie Munoz Jan 5

Demented

Displaced and detached
These feelings,
unmatched.
There's nothing to say,
But I like it that way.

-Melanie Munoz

Melanie Munoz Jan 2

Rays Of You

Sun you bring death
Yet I swim and I sweat
In the rays of you;
Bright yellow sun.

-Melanie Munoz

It didn't matter who he was, I was there for him.

Melanie Munoz Dec 2024

Ignorance Is bliss

I don't understand my feelings,
so,
I ignore them

-Melanie Munoz

Melanie Munoz Dec 2024

Never Been Beautiful

My beauty is not beauty enough for I am not as pretty as my other friends.

My beauty is not beauty enough because men do not tend to notice me.

My beauty is not beauty enough for I have never been one to understand compliments.

My beauty is not beauty enough.

I have never been beautiful.

-Melanie Munoz

Felt insecure and wanted it to stop.