Seamless Salutations

Whispers of Sorrow

Screeching Inside

Inexplicable Solitude

Clouding My Eyes

Father of Mine

Where Are You?

Nowhere in Sight

Only Faint Memories

Instilled in This Young Mind

Your Smile

So Warm

So Kind

Remember Daddy

When You Put On Your Strong Face

Always Tried

But in the Dead of Night I Knew

I Could Hear You Whimper

Muffled Cries

We Had Little

But I Couldn’t Care

I Was Only Five

You Would Hold Me

Telling Me My Imagination and Spirit

Would More Than Suffice

It Was Our Ticket To Anywhere

Escape

Day or Night

Recalling the Day You Took Our Neighbors Newspaper

Giggling Inside

Taking Scissors to Cut Up the Words

They Didn’t Put Up A Fight

Together

We Built Paris

Out of Paper

Those French Folks… Cities… Skies

You Told Me That One Day

You Would Take Me to The Tower

We Would Climb It

Watch the Sunset and Rise

You Kissed My Forehead

Swallowing Shallow Lies

Calling Me Your Little Mademoiselle

We Would Have Ice Cream

Ride That Carousel 

Fondest Pieces I Could Find

Last Thoughts I Hold On To

Hoping That Someday

I’ll Wake Up

Uncover, Unbind

A Roll of Newspaper

By the Doorstep

Along With The Man

Who I Loved

In He I Confide

-M.G.

How funny is it that we think every choice that we make, every bridge we cross or burn, word we say, step we take brings us to where we are today. 

Humanity, so complex in theory yet so simple minded.

Mechanical in how we live our daily lives, our every day routine, so misguided…

However, every once in a while a series of clockwork motions are counteracted by impulse.

That devious notion that births possibilities never deemed more than fragments of what could be…

Passion, that rebellious little fool who breaks things and blames it on you….

Together these two can build a ladder towards the light or a plank plunging into the furthest depths of hell.

What can we do? We can not resist our curiosity, its in our nature to try to fix what’s impeccable and think we destroyed what was already beyond repair….

But, what if in reality you never jumped, you were shoved…

Something implanting that brilliant “rebellious” thought, every mishap and serendipitous moment you’ve ever encountered has been expected…

Humanity, so complex in theory yet so simple minded.

So predictable and gullible to think they can chose their fate

When in reality every thought implanted,every impulse integrated… all of our desires and our capability for passion used against us.

We like to believe we are all unique, yet we allow ourselves to be manipulated by every source of media imaginable… making individuality nothing more than a mere concept that is practically impossible to fulfill due to what modern day society deems as acceptable..

We think we have liberties but that’s a true deception, just remember that free will is a two edge sword, we blindly believe what we are told, give up what we must to be safe…for now that’s allI can say…just remember.. EVERYTHING comes with a price… and no one ever said they were going to play nice…

-Miriam Galindo

No caress more tender 

Then the one filled with warmth that September 

Infatuated by the feeling of beige velvet running through my toes

Like a million little past lives crashed upon the shores

Use to be memories,

Now tattered shards, nothing more

Creating a montage of fallen dreams dug deep beneath our soles, 

Chipped Cracked, Bleeding through these pages like ink

So fluid in motion

A love now lost,

Yet right between our sheets it slumbers

That impulsive… perhaps… idea… that could have been created into a beautiful devotion 

Independence

Freedom

Bliss

I feel

When I am completely alone, not a single tear

No judgement, people’s looks I fear,

Couldn’t be more perfect, the solitude out here

Independence

Freedom

Bliss

I feel

When you are no where near,

Love you…Yes I do my dear

Reason being why I can’t be near

Clarity resides in these waters,

Clear, Clean, Crystal Shudders.

This my sanity needs to function,

Last thing I want is an internal eruption

To you I’d come back a thousand times over

Without you I can not exist

You’re my all, my lucky charm, my four leaf clover.

Where do I start, Who is to blame, This endless rut that has my soul in dismay, Pointing our fingers Left, Right, Up In the end you can only control your reaction, The answer isn’t in the world, It’s in your heart

-Miriam Galindo

Drive fast,

Leave the speedway

There’s nothing more to say,

In danger, on the run

I always put you in harms way

Never understand that

I love you too much to stay

With myself I could not live if I lost you, either may my heart break… our love crumble away.

Trust me, its better if I live in the shadows,

Please run in freedom,

Enjoy the light of day

My biggest mistake was to become vulnerable with each verbal caress

Tangled in this mess

The tenderness, the smirks, the way that you would say my name

Now you and I together I can never claim

This feeling will forever run through every vein

No matter how much it hurts,

Our goodbyes would bring too much pain

I wish you the best of luck, that you may remain in health,

Because you know its true when I say

In order to save me,

You must save yourself

-Miriam Galindo

Decisions

The entity that keeps the world in motion,

Spinning like a web

Entangling its victims

Until it can come back some day and devour each bit hope

Leaving them lifeless and damned to an eternal debt of their actions to hold

Regrets so deep into their souls, that redemption feels nearly impossible to condole

Thus unable to fulfill who they were truly destined to be,

Like a breeze carried into the night,

The last breathe of cigarette light,

A spark so insignificant to the human eye

Can catch fire to those who say fuck it and give it a try

Nevertheless there’s no more to say,

Just get out there,

Life’s full of memories to be made,

So beautifully indiscernible

Nothing can break it

Not even the light of day,

Join me,

What do you say,

No rush but let there be no delay,

Hesitance is one’s worst dismay

Don’t worry if they carry you away

Into the dusk,

Harbor or bay,

Nothing can you hurt you more than what you don’t discover,

It’ll go incognito,

Something you’ll never get the chance to recover

Remember,

Time Is It’s

Obscure

Relentless

Lover

-Miriam Galindo

My heart ….hurts….
Make it stop
This irregular beating
Too late I drop.
To my knees, hear my crying
Longer I can not last
Surpressed these feelings
Shot me
Rocket blast
Pain I can endure
Memories, chosen poison, watch me burn.
Death isn’t the end it’s an escape
No corruption, shame to record, erase that mental tape.
An out lit to a life so distinct
Carefree spirit, letting it be
Timeless seas of peace
Wash over me
Melt into my flesh,
Down to the core
Numb all that I am.
Make me feel no more.