Even the greenest leaf commits suicide.
She falls as the wind comes,
Swinging from the sides.
She knows it’s better to have her feet on the ground
Than to live with her head on the sky.
Even the greenest leaf commits suicide.
Looking down at the sidewalk,
She’s sure she’s tired of following running clouds.
Instead, she prefers stones that sit still.
Even the greenest leaf commits suicide,
She’d rather die than kill.
Sunlight on your skin,
I can hear the cracks
it makes when it burns.
I wonder if that’s how
I sound like when you touch me.
You’re like a dark chalkboard
On the first day of school.
I want to write my name on it
with a timeless chalk.
So that my words
will forever be with you.
Even after I’m gone.
Even when I leave.
You’ll read me.
Were I not a woman,
Would you ask me
what I was wearing?
What was I drinking?
Were I not a woman,
Would it matter
if I was alone or with a man?
Would it change a thing,
had I been a man?
Were I not a woman,
Was this not my ass,
Were these not my breasts,
Would you still see me as a potential mother?
Were I not a woman,
Would it still be my fault?
Would you not trust my voice?
Let me wrap myself in you
like a Saturn ring.
When you move, I’ll dance.
When you breathe, I’ll sing.
Did you write
those melodies yourself?
Because I’m tired of a capella poems
and I like the beating of your heart.
I’ve been wondering
what my voice would sound like
laid on your chest.
Maybe we should do a duet.
Leaves on the sidewalk.
They crack as I walk,
I know they must be talking to me.
I know they are warning me.
With each step another one dies,
They’re like stars
turning themselves off.
It hurts every time.
Although I know
They’re no longer alive,
I still believe in their light.
Autumn comes like a thief
in the night.
Slow moves and sharp knives
It knows what it wants.
Undressing trees and blowing candles.
Suddenly Summer is gone.
Wet socks above my sole,
I know this water
will someday help a flower grow
But for now
it hurts.
it’s freezing my life in death row
I know this water
will someday help a boat move.
But for now
it’s painful.
it’s drowning my toes in misery
Depriving me from victory.
Wet socks above my sole
But I can still touch the ground.
I won’t let them get me down.
I take you as my partner.
I promise
To hold, but not to have.
From this day forward,
For better
and for best.
For richer,
And for hopeful.
In sickness
and in happiness.
For as long as
we both shall love.
Don’t take me for a spark.
I’m a fireball running in slow motion
waiting for a fast wind.
If you cross my way,
I’ll burn you.
I will take down
these paper trees you built
in front of me.
Destroy the world
you believe in.
Test me.
Try me.
I can erupt like a volcano,
hibernating with its face
looking down.
Spitting fire from my pores,
My skin will turn into
a black coal.
I will write History
wherever I go.
If you have to go,
Then let this goodbye be as dark and tragic
as your mother’s tears.
Let it be as loud
As the first sound you made when you
Left her womb,
Scared,
Desperate,
Lonely.
In my mind,
You’ll always be a child.
Like a moon, scared to show it’s whole face
But oh!
If only you saw the light
that shines through when you do
It’s so beautiful.
You’re so beautiful.
I hope the kiss of death
Is as fresh and beautiful as your first breath.
If you have to go.
Escreve Eliana, Escreve 