Cupid’s Arrow

Cupid’s arrow doesn’t pierce armor

Waited longer than an eternity

But he never showed

No knight on a horse

Romeo under the moonlight

Serenade love songs

Pen love poems

Love locked

Walk with a poker face

Pretending I don’t care

Cupid’s arrow flies

Doesn’t hit the mark

I stand on the shore

Relationships sail

He doesn’t meet me

Not even in dreams

From a distance

Is he on the other side of the moon

Impervious to Cupid’s arrow

I march alone

Lost in reverie

That’s never real

On the sidelines of love

We’ve never met

We’re as far as the moon is from the sea

In Her Head

She lives in her head

such a crowded place

on the edge of reason

A Rose shaped hole in her heart

she walks through a haze

talking to the moon

minuscule mustard seed in her pocket

dreams at her feet

lost in a sea of people

voice too small among the din

a maelstrom of emotions

she swims in tears

she lives in her head

such a crowded place

Leaving Autumn

on an autumn day

my world turned iron gray

as you drifted away

leaving autumn colder

than December

falling leaves

can not go back to the tree

I couldn’t bring your

breath back to you

Quiet Reverb

empty bedrooms

leave the light on

silent voices

echo through the hallway

the house bones creak

quiet reverb

long gone laughter

rings in my ears

still photographs

memories play

quiet reverb

the clock ticks

ghosts take up space

in the quiet

reverb

My Rose

Thursday left me shattered

An ocean, I cried

The day my Rose lost her petals

Falling leaves outside

Raining teardrops inside

September left me in pieces

Made a river from my tears

The day my Rose wilted

Gray clouds outside

Blue on the inside

Back to September

I wish I could rewind that day

when you went away

my heart shattered

my world broke

seeing my mom without her soul

tore a hole in mine

I’ve cried oceans

wishing I could travel back to the beginning of September

to have you again

Table For One

The stars wasn’t as lonely as she/ gathered with many/ pinpricks in the sky/ tears pricked her eyelids/ The sun wasn’t as lonely as she/ The sky his very home/ clouds passing by/ The days just passing her by/  The streams wasn’t as lonely as she/ For she was always running into rivers/ She was running out of time / She was one in the universe/ a lonely planet/ orbiting herself

Days of Disenchantment

These feelings can’t last always

hands pressed against the glass

drowning in an ocean of tears

burning bright

stars eventually go dim

collapsing

dreams lost in the black

whole lot of doubt

Turning over into a new day

but still the same

a lone star

in an overcrowded sky

outside the social circles

invisibly traipsing

 

Just a scribble

Creativity suppressed
by depressed thoughts
the war is fought
in the mind
a palace becomes
a prison

Unrequited

 

 

 

The flowers have long since wilted

 

Chocolate kisses have melted

 

You never came

 

I tire of plucking petals

 

Being a starry-eyed maid-in-waiting…

 

For you to come

 

Bleeding love?

 

My heart has turned tortoise shell

 

You took too long

 

The relationship sailed on

 

Leaving me to drown with insecurities