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keni Nov 2022
Although it's only the color of amber--
outside feels like the turning of the days
have lasted a life time. I tend to shy away from
the cold. Rolling and rolling, I question
the night that has promised me a day.
While the shudders of your shoulders creep-
in broad daylight,  I ask again.

Maybe the bold colors I gave were
limitation to how I felt. I say
"Would you?" a soft whisper in the corner of my mind
but you answer me truthfully and then
it's like that winter two years ago all over
rolling and rolling I tend to seek the same experience and once it's done, and I've licked my fingers.
I'm back
keni Sep 2021
And nothing more
Days and passing around borrowed
then we watch reality
into what it is and isn't the smooth opening
or closing of a door with a shadow who looks like you
And If I could't forget would that make me immortal
If I would forget would that make you dead
or weak to the sound of tumbles
And there we are staring under a tree
and a breeze caresses your hair
and the branches call your name
If there was a an opening to a door
would a widow peak or mourn
and to me it's another passing day
but to you it's enternity
a play of words for today
keni Jan 2022
I watch the kids.
Brown broken glass
around them.

Over it I fell,
Peace and glory to the night
Showing you that an
image is free and indulgent
permissive and letting.

To discover a name,
a sweet nothing in my ear and to believe
that the future is near.

I stare that, of eyes and I hold in my hand, lies.
keni Jan 2023
Catching the glance of an
Almost stranger almost friend.
Catching my own breath, the seconds
Prolong. Drifting my attention back to the
Speaker.
Legs tired as they touch the ground beneath.
My eyes suddenly aren’t mine.
The dirt of my palms, sand of the turf.

Your eyes reflect the lightest blue
A mirror of me
They never stopped looking while I was lost in
Attention.
keni Feb 2023
Lake that glistens tame to the bare eye.
When you come across it suffocates.
Although it's beautiful and melancholic,
there is a darkness surrounding it.
keni Nov 2022
The maple leaf is here,
and when I watch it,
the crows watch me.
There's a breeze that I can catch
in the quicksand pit stomach of a bear.
to be a child again as I
let go, it feels like I'm old
But my birthday passed and the chains made noise
but oh how nice to finally see the light,
in a never-ending maze I feel happy.
keni May 2022
Partly because
im trapped in.
Partly like bubble wrapped
Forced into a box and told id be loved.
I wanted to look at the moon at the same time you did.
Feel how your palm sweated.
I wanted to be witness to a love Id say yes to.
Remembering those moments,
episodic memory that its feelings contradict.
Theater room sat
Sore and lonely
As words, phrases, and sentences escaped from your lips and travelled to those around you.
I am the decoration to your walls.
Yet I knew that you were the faux fur under the promising sun.
And now I was waiting for another day
To drag along and find an excuse
To end this gut of a feeling.
Because it is true
And that liars like liars
keni Mar 2022
The mud I swing above of.
She told me to take my time as
The change from the
strawberry ice cream began to roll.
My sage green coin purse.
I wish to leave this town
Neither small or big but
It seems like knows me more.

The waters of march.
Known for the rain and yet
The tears wont dry because its warmer outside.

Wondering if the acid in my stomach
Has had enough of me.
Wondering if the doctor can still
swing like a child for comfort.

In a few months
Ill have to go
But i wonder if
I'll be swinging still
Lamenting.
keni Apr 2021
Moonrise and sunrise
Their ubiquitous presence
in war  
in festivals
It's rage and it's freedom
to control and be controlled
no place to hide
a place to look
and you are in love with venus
across your heart and though your mind
but tell the god
you are the god.
keni Mar 2022
Tongue of the wise  .
Vida mia.  
I tie the lasso around.

Intoxicated and medicated,
the burn that leaves my crystal
passage of wellness.

Im serving tables and they
tables serve me.
This industry of destruction
where the powder in the bathroom
is laid on in lines.

My bone and flesh don't
stand on its own.
The coin is worth more.
keni Dec 2021
I am there staring at the sign.
Cladophora algae
the great lakes.
They sway inviting me into
the rising waters.

Alone there, with no fish.
Pebbles and sand shake my hand.
Getting ***** is something I can't withstand.
And yet here I am looking at the lake.

It wants to eat me alive.
Drowning me on the way to maybe the otherside.
on a little wisconsin bay.
Where fishermen are congratulated for giving their lives in winter
and I am frowned upon for giving it up
in the spring.
12:58
keni Nov 2023
There will be no answer.
And I will find myself again.
At swallow Clift step after step.

Rolling hills of gravel,
And sun hitting the sweat like it’s dew.

Do I deserve this ?
Am I worthy?
Things I would say when I didn’t believe in my name.

But the hunger grows inside of me.
How much do I want it ?
keni Dec 2021
I was born and my role was determined
To love I was capable of,
I knew the change before it occurred.
When the rooster woke me up I knew,
The dishes, the table and someone’s lunch.

One day,
I’ll have to conform myself
to the role I was born into.
Oh, the identity of me will be gone.  
And I will form someone
From the womb.

I’ll be grateful that he’ll come to me,
When the silver of the night reflects on the pond.
Next door everyone’s asleep.
I’ll be there next to kitchen.
Like a doll.

When I die I’ll regret it all
A life I couldn’t choose and
People I ended loving,
2:06
keni Jan 2022
Crackled spades
and even cups.

Girl; pushes you
to land on the  
the right.

push today
the world will know
the timeline of
your sweat and tears.

Wired rings within,
barbwire smiles
connected us.
10:07 am
keni Feb 1
The dust mites like to eat.
The moths like to feast.
I tried to feed them
I tried to give them.

Glory, glory, glory
can you make the gory sight go away?

The mice trickled down my spine
and every time the sound of wet
chewing of paper wrappers under
the counter, I cover my ears.
I can't face the sob story.

You, with your mask, so sly,
Return only when I've said goodbye.
When I'm fine, standing tall and true,
You reappear, like a ghost, out of the blue.
keni Mar 2023
Vivi por ahi, con dos camisas una sucia y una limpia.
A Veces frotaba la cara en la sucia y mi conciencia me mataba.
La otra a mi lado no se dio cuenta.
No era algo que a mi me gustaba.
A veces deseaba que la camisa me hablara, que me dijera estoy aquí y que podía ponerme la.

Y cuando se dio cuenta, me tenia reconcor.

— The End —