Hear My Name
You four were playing a ball game
Outside, and I wanted to join you guys.
I waited for hours, and none of you had
Asked me if I wanted to play a round.
It felt like you took my feelings and
Smashed them into cobblestones.
It will be okay, because one day, when
You finally hear my name out and about—
Around the world and on TV—you will
Want to include me in your silly games.
Paper Cut
Even though it has already been a
Decade, the words that you once said
To me are forever going to be stuck
Inside my brain, and they can’t escape.
Your words stung me so badly, and the
Only thing that the painful words left
Me was a massive paper cut on my
Pointer finger that will never go away.
We can’t take back what we say, but
We can always rethink before we say
Mean things that we are going to end
Up regretting in our faraway future.
I Won’t Forgive You
The one thing that keeps me wide
Awake in the middle of the night is
Remembering when you backstabbed
Me, and you still expected me to
Apologize for your mistakes that you
Are still continuing to make every day.
If there is one thing that I could promise
You, it would be that I won’t forgive you.
No matter how close we were in the past,
In the future, I will not be the same person.
Letter In An Envelope
I was distraught these past four months
when I did not receive a letter.
From you, after you swore to me you
Would write as soon as you could.
That evening after I cried my eyes out,
I went outside to check my mailbox again,
To see if I received any mail that day.
I opened up the mailbox and inside …
Was a letter in an envelope — with your
Name on; it I opened it so fast.
I wept because it meant the world.
You had written me back.
New Beginning
I feel like the negativity just continues
To creep up on me at random times.
Is it so wrong for me to feel like my
Feelings are trapped inside, meddling.
Locked up in a cage? Always too worried
about other people and …
What the world has to think about me.
Maybe it is finally time to start anew.
Beginnings, and moving forward with life,
You just have to be the kindest person.
Tell A Story
I have been dealing with much pain
From past memories, past experiences.
In my life I know I need to move
Forward and try to forget all of them.
Others will not physically, emotionally understand
What I have been through if they have not yet
Experienced it. My past is like ripping off
A Band-Aid fast while still feeling the sting.
That is why I try to tell a story through
My poetry … to send a message to others.
Everybody’s Opinion
As we were walking down the street
Heading into the town where we live
I unexpectedly kept on running into
You – not knowing what to expect
When I knew you in the past, everybody
Had an opinion about me in your friend group
It felt like it was Everybody’s Opinion
even though it was not many people.
One day you will realize to keep your opinion
To yourself – because it can really affect people.
