I Remember

I forgot how the morning birds used to wake me up

I live on the streets now with the sounds of screeching tires

I remember how the morning rays curved past the trees

How the rifts on the East slowly lit up with the sunrise

I forgot how the first rays filled the skin with an exotic satisfaction

I remember how the willow trees made a rhythm with the wind

How the morning breeze chilled and numbed all at once

How the lousy morning talks slowly faded before breakfast

How the family of six gradually became five or four

How the elder sister got married and never came home

How the elder brother impregnated a girl and ran away to the city

I remember how the family got together every Christmas

I remember how the rain was welcomed by baby games

I mean the kids played in the rain, and their parents made more

I remember the long and short barefoot walks to the factory

I remember the evening sneak out from the girls

Their mere intentions to get a hug in a dark alley or beneath the trees

I forgot how it felt to sit around the fire late at night

I forgot how it was when mom told us of her travels

I remember the fun talks, every night before a journey

I remember, the sweet laughter, filled with a family warmth

I remember everything; nothing was ever cold

This is Goodbye

I never wanted to see it end, but life is never fair

I always wanted to see how we would get along

We had so many dreams about a mysterious future

We played with the crayons that were meant to draw our destiny

We messed with the words of a book we never wrote

You were the perfect human that day we met

You were the perfect Romeo to an imperfect Juliet

You were willing to deliberate to make it worthwhile

We were just perfect because the flame was still fresh

We were merely lost in the magic of new beginnings

We were blinded by the feelings of new surroundings

We were guided by the illusions of feelings that never died

I was willing to make ends meet to see you again

I was willing to try Latino dancing to make you happy

I was willing to attach my heart to yours just to never let you go

It was all worth it when it lasted

The spark that we so much held on to is burning out

The love that we constantly fought for is fading away

The future that we so deeply dreamt of is crumbling down

The sweet words and beautiful dreams are all gone by the wind

And this is just a piece of poetry meant to say goodbye

This is an outline of the end of a love that couldn’t last

This is the final farewell to the story of you and me

This is the ultimate end to a love that never was

Someday

You built your life around notions of prosperity and tranquility

You perfected the future of an implied ‘someday’

You know your kids and what they love to do

You’ve seen your wife dancing to that Katy Perry song at 80

You love your in-laws and they are glad to have you

You have a perfect life in the illusions of your mind

You choose to work hard for things to be better someday

You avoid small talks to have a great idea of the ultimate vows

You distance yourself from reality to live in a palace of your own

You are so perfectly driven towards the ultimate success

You face every moment with the divine perfection of better days

You are the utter resemblance of hope in the end times

You have everything figured out in your mind

You colored the nursery before you even woke up

You avoid reality and live a life of ‘someday’

You have nothing now, maybe all you have is that someday

Unicorns

One night you woke up and didn't believe anymore

You had believed the stories about dragons

She had been your unicorn from the day you saw her

She was exquisite and different in a world of similarities

You had seen the depth of the sky in her angelic eyes

You knew this feeling, it was uniquely crafted to fulfil

Yet your heart’s desire was to remain full and intact

You were willing to give your heart to this one

She was no ordinary person, she was a rare creature

She was not from this world, she co-existed with the gods

She was the blood in humans and the water in the seas

She understood the words you never managed to utter

She smiled to the sarcasm you deeply hid

She appreciated the thoughts you never expressed

You never believed that she was as real as them

She was simple and yet utterly complex

She was a god and yet possessed the beauty of the angels

She was a broad subject and you believed what you saw

She was a unicorn; you were the one she belonged to

But you never knew how to tame a wild bird

So one Wednesday evening you saw her walk away

You tried to beg her to stay but she never stared back

You were sure that she was not like the rest

She was a god and had no place for little sentiments

She had seen enough of the world and she was going

Going to look over her kingdoms while you built one

You built a kingdom with the tears and the pain

You believed in unicorns and the world destroyed you

That’s the price you paid for trusting and believing

The Notion of Happy Ever After

The notion of a happy ever after was a perspective

The allure of darkness was washed off by the purest heart

The unintended flattery became darkness in the journey to happiness

The angels and gods are all aware of something uniquely blessed

The pain that I continually tried to hide finally forming waves

The memories of the past gently engraved in the concrete

The concrete of a heart so unhinged, broken, and unworthy

The unrelenting feeling of a satisfactory and never-ending pain

The constant desire to let go slowly gaining the upper hand

The deceitful voices numbing any sound thoughts in my mind

The culture of evil corrupting the promise of sanity

The urge and desire for happiness ultimately lost

The utter drive to forfeit and run gaining the upper hand

The overall description of perfection stained by a perverse mind

The in-between forgotten and embraced with either extreme

The glittering morning rays or the last glimpse of the setting sun

The beautiful purple or yellow decorating both horizons

The reins and ruins differentiated by the ragged clouds or blue sky

The end of an era

I always figured that love would be what I imagined. I thought I'd never know the pain that came with the deepest emotions. I thought wrong. Love was what either lifted you up or ultimately killed you, or maybe both. Walking down memory lane, I can recall holding her hands down the plains. We offered the world so many memories. We chased each other down the slopes and lay down on the grass. We searched for the slightest opportunities to kiss without giving our feelings away. We failed every time: There were always kids giggling as we kissed in the confines of the long grasses or elderly people coughing and sighing. We never really felt threatened because it all felt so right and real. It was the first time I thought of forever and dreamt of perfection. For five years nothing ever felt as good. We never fought in person, we had better things to do.

Maybe technology is to blame. Maybe the instant messages throughout space were the reason nothing ever works. So on one fateful September night you stopped believing in forever. And that one night I started believing in the notion of fate and destiny. We were still on our different worlds. You were singing and I was trying to be funny. You were falling in love and I was running from reality. We were splitting. We were a million miles away and it stopped feeling real. The flames were burning off in a forever kind of love. We tried to rekindle the spark that related us to Romeo and Juliet. But we were forcing eternity on a dying candle. It was the end of an era...