just an aside

Odilia Rivera Santos

i am proud but still sensitive - not prone to fall
in or out of delicate situations like love
and how we slip
through each other's ephemeral dreams
tells a story too.

we were never real
but you
rooted to here and now
and this and that and and and
dot dot dot

and remember, its in ordinary time

you let go
- not cause you don't care but because you weren't looking
of the string at the end of my kite
and made me cry

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