APPHIA GARCIA

Life is like one day
It comes around for not very long then fades away.
What can you accomplish?
What can be done in just one day?
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My heart is as restless as the sea.
Underwater earthquake-tsunami, rupture inside me.
What can I do to stop my heart from beating so rapidly?
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Much of my heartbeat
Is the imitation of what I felt in your heart
When you hugged me tightly.
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Lost in a world of my own
Trapped in a body that feels foreign, I have no control.
Emotions are ripping me apart
Battered and bruised inside yet smiles on the outside.
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Not because I did not text you
It means I did not want too.
Not because I did not call you
It means I have not been thinking about you.
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There is a break up.
I am in the middle of it.
The two just can't come together.
I am not sure there can be a mending of it.
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I remember when you steered into my eyes,
I remember when you kissed me,
I remember the first touch from your hands,
I remember when you first said you loved me.
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All may desire complete comfort,
But today that is sought of impossible.
Then again we can have that satisfaction from what?
In today's world,
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Life is about falling, picking yourself up
Putting the pieces together and continuing.
Life is about bouncing your head
Once, twice but never trice.
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Poetry is me.
I write about the struggles in life
and all my calamities.
The obstacles beset by and all of life's anxieties.
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As lava red sunsets scorch the horizon
So too this feeling scorches my soul.
The laser beams that rip through the sky
To create an unfathomable, unforgettable picturesque view,
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Testing...testing...
1,2,3
Can you hear me?
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Perfectly trained to be a lady,
With all the philosophies past down from my grandmother to me through my mother.
The belief that a lady must be seen and not heard,
Walk with her chin parallel to the ground and her back erect.
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Have you ever found true love,
In a place where romance does not exist?
Where you are hugged,
Without it meaning I just want to touch you?
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You are what make the clouds drift,
Yet I can't see you.
Good deeds, bad deeds you are,
Yet I can't see you.
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Sometimes I wish I was a little more than human.

I wish I can take your pain away.
I wish I could have offered protection
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They say love never fails
But are we failing at love?

Last year when I saw you
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Dear mummy,
I remember when you neglected me, when I told you the man you now live with touched me inappropriately. I felt so unclean, so violated and indecent. The mistake I made was I thought I could have run to you for help.

Dear mummy,
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I am sitting on the toilet seat,
My mind takes me to a place,
Somewhere I like to be but...
Also somewhere I hate.
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There are people who want to kill our smiling faces,
Stamp us down,
Invade our spaces.
There are people who want to see us fall.
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