I want to comfort the world

I want to comfort the world,  but the world does not accept me.  It does not want the gentle warnings of a mother,  who can then comfort you...

Thursday, September 24, 2020

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 It’s sad turning 21 is a coming of age story, while

also being a closer to death story.


Knowing that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, 

a hot garbage smell making itself 


at home in my nostrils, while everything I touch 

is pointy, leaving me punctured.


My day to day worries echo like gunshots 

bouncing around in an empty skull.


Just to remind me I’m older, “Chrissy get your head out 

of the gutter, you can’t spend a whole day at Point State Park”


Turning 21 leaves me with a false sense

of déjà vu, like opening doors to a future past.


You gotta keep moving on,

keep looking at the past you eventually get stuck in it.

cuida tu espalda, no confíes en nadie.


The scared girl of a woman is a silence 

loudest in rooms with others drowning.


She’s Chrissy now, no doubt about it

she has underestimated powers 


“camina con dios mi amor,”

the cat in the window once said.


You were once a bud, my dear, but now 

you are a flower blossomed.



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