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Downtown my lost love
Three grams I smoked none
The bus screeched I stepped on
My drunk thoughts and vile tongue
The cars pass their lights die
The bus stops I walk off
My moms mad my phone rings
I keep on, my songs sing

-Melanie Munoz
I want to disappear somewhere far from here.
Open bars and drunkards
Cold feet and dark streets
Pink puke and white slabs
My love is far from me.

-Melanie Munoz
  Feb 6 Melanie Munoz
Aymeric
I don’t blame you.
Love can’t be forced to bloom.
But I wish you had stayed,
just once,
long enough to notice
how much of me was yours.
I dreamed it
The air was thick.
Smelt of fresh cut grass and beer.
I kept thinking of how bad my stomach hurt,
And how I missed my dad.
I walked barefoot through the pebbled parking lot
Passed by cars full, and empty of happy families.
The picnic tables to my right
The burning in my stomach
The blurry corn fields to my left
The trees,
The way they danced in the cool summer air
And how I missed my dad
Yet I stood.
Alone again.

-Melanie Munoz
Sometimes I miss my innocence and the father I used to know.
when you left
you took the color with you,
and now the world
is like an old television set,
with muffled sound
that grates the ears,
and a picture
that cuts in and out,
filled with static,
in brilliant black and white,
that's made more of shades of gray.
did your world get more vibrant,
when you de-saturated mine?
or did the color
disappear entirely;
slipping out of your fingers
to be consumed
by the void
where my heart
once lived

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I twiddled my thumbs and held my breath
As I waited for your sweet voice to call my name.
I ached for your warmth just being there, laying there, sitting there.
I listened to music you loved hoping the melodies
would connect our souls.
I smoked to see if the fumes would sway for me
The way they swayed for you.
Your silence was deafening
It burned holes in my conscience
I filled it with messages and songs you left me with.
The pain you left me with.
                        
                                              -Melanie Munoz
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