Open bars and drunkards
Cold feet and dark streets
Pink puke and white slabs
My love is far from me.

-Melanie Munoz

Off beat
Off key
I've never been comfortable
Never comforted

Common
Boring
I've never been interesting
Never impressed

-Melanie Munoz

Does the sidewalk feel my feet?
Does the wind notice me?

-Melanie Munoz

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

I walk the streets
See the slopes
And the valleys of fire
To be here with you is my greatest and darkest desire

-Melanie Munoz

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 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

*** swishes in my stomach
Shock waves pulse in my blood
Anxiety hugs from within
This world will never know love.

-Melanie Munoz