Don't fall away
and leave me to myself
Don't fall away
and leave love bleeding in my hands,
in my hands again
And leave love bleeding in my hands,
in my hands
Love lies bleeding
—Fuel, "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"
ANNA CAMILA:
[Eulogy for my eyelashes]
You served a purpose
To make me beautiful
You darkened my eyelids
When nothing could color their frame
Now you lay in whitened waste for days
On the rim of the sink
In my dirty bathroom
Unlike Mom's—sparkly clean
Dreaming of laughter and butterfly kisses
No more eyelashes to faces
To a guy from a Mrs.
Soon you will be
on a tissue in the trash
and I am sorry:
just a memory of spicier days
when you strutted on the eyes of a hot babe
making her look like a Hollywood star
making her cry
and only abandon you
when the guys care not for lashes
only what's underneath
and nothing more
than something evanescent
in my dirty bathroom
on the rim of the sink
now you lie in whitened waste
when nothing could color their frame
you darkened my eyelids
to make me beautiful
you served your purpose.
For Estéfano:
Because you thought
You could get away
With burying our love
Because you cared not
For my blue bleeding heart
And you invested only half of your feelings
Our perfect love died
And here is buried
In this epitaph
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Once Again, I Dreamt of Water
RomanceOnce Again, I Dreamt of Water commences through the all-seeing "eye" of a pensive tree: a Jacaranda whose name happens to be Jacob. This is the peculiar story and diary of Alondra and Estefano in the first half. In the second half, Estefano's lover...
