Janine Alyssa Navarro

Do you believe that you belong
In that drowning sensation
Where you’re safe as long as
You’re constantly inundated?
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To the time wasted upon the stoplight
When I hung up the phone
Just to curse under my breath
As you strayed the white lights
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she tastes as soft as
the first bite
of Tiramisu
slowly dissolving
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I value life
I’m afraid of death
but sometimes life
makes me say
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I am alright
I am fine
When bad feelings arise
I know what is wise
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It’s funny how nothingness takes too long to end
How anticipation speed time.

It’s funny how we’d want for cries to end
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In the drunken hour
I searched for purpose.
Maybe a hobby, or a job
but all I got was you.
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I’m happy, you’re happy
But if something goes wrong
Promise me one thing,
No matter what;
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Lost in the woods
I was thirsty
in mad search
for water, shelter.
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Surpass the fading, the nonchalance
I feel the sturdy bells resign
To the pragmatic darkness
As it’s veiled with momentary doubt
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Stains of his previous pledge
Drip from the dagger
That he has offered you
Wash your hands, poor girl
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Take yourself away any day,
Away into the dissolving floors
With a gentle call to the seas
In its blanket of lovely sleep
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Maybe I was chasing
a day-dream
to realize things
for how they really were.
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They say
it's a wonderful
place.
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Little girls and little boys, be wise
stick to your baby food, toys and be nice
for once you grow up
and hear stories of love
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Cold sweat
pricks at
my begging nape.
The beauty in your soul
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there’s a man by the lake
he points to where I should go
I refuse to consider
for my mind’s buried
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