My name is Alexander Zabalza, and I've been writing poetry since I was 10 years old. Most of the poems I wrote back then are gone with time, but to be honest, they were probably just thoughts of a broken kid who didn't know how to write poems. However, writing was the only thing that helped me express my feelings.
The poems I've written over the years can be cataloged into three different parts of my life, each showing where I was in my mental health when I wrote them. This includes poems written for important people who crossed my path during that time. As you read my poetry, you may notice the hatred I had for myself, but over time, I started to recognize my own truth and that I needed to start fixing myself.
I acted like I did not see anything to protect myself.
I did not speak up because I did not want to lose what we had
I turn the other way, not to see the pain you are causing me
I close my eyes so I can have the strength to fight for you
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You made me believe in love once again
after years of thinking love did not exist
I can see in your beautiful brown eyes the real beauty of life
I wish I could kiss those lips so I could taste a white soul
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A rose to forget
On this beautiful day
I will give you a rose
A rose to forget
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I was bullied seen I was four years old, a kid with no childhood, a kid who nobody understood. I still remember all those words they told me. They become scars that never heal. The purge of suicides came to my head at 5 years old I attempted my first suicides nobody knows about, but just the scars were there. I heard voices in my head. Do it? A white light came to take the knife away. I woke up as if nothing had happened. Life doesn't get better if you don't get up and fight for yourself because nobody will
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