Juan Olivarez Poems

Mamacita in heaven, how I miss you,
right after you left us, I knew not what to do.
It's almost twelve years now, since you went away,
and my heart is still broken, to this very day.
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In the Texas ranch country,
It turns in the sky,
Dwarfing the live oaks,
That stand by and sigh.
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Long endless day, by the Rio Grande,
long cane pole, stuck in the sand,
Waiting for whiskers, to come swimming by,
And see that pole bend, what a natural high.
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If you love somebody, you...
Leave your home
Leave your job
Leave you family
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lazy cat meandering by
get's dived bombed out of the sky
one after another the bombers fly
defying death, triumph or die
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Too long I have been away,
and all I wanted was to return,
but now I'll never see the day,
I'll see my home for which I mourn.
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The silence is deafening,
far to the north, a steel grey curtain descends on the mountains.
Usually sunny skies turn to a cloudy coolness,
thousands of tiny yellow faces make the scene.
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I feel my life shrinking, becoming nothing
everyday more and more drains away.
my essense is ebbing like the morning tide,
departing little by little every night.
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Miserable existance, so far away,
Oh, how I hate to feel this way.
I'm wasting away, losing my soul,
Around my heart, eternal cold.
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The Gulf of Mexico, a beautiful sight,
as it breathes on me, in the dawns grey light.
Blue grey water far as the sky,
merging together where all sea-birds fly.
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