I woke to the rain pattering on my window.
The dark clouds displeased me.
He lingered in my head as I laid on my pillow.
My arms burned blue
The pit grew deeper.

-Melanie Munoz

A rotting body and brain splatter
Collapsed upon the tile floor.
They gasped and cried and pulled me close
They missed the pulse before.
Self-inflicted.
Conscience blown.
No home, ignore the mold.

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

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

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

-Melanie Munoz

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

-Melanie Munoz

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


-Melanie Munoz

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