Aileen Figueroa Poems

I saw a light.
As I slowly came out of my
depressing state of mind,
shackled and wasted years of bondage.
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Father God,
Help me see
what I cannot see
with my own eyes.
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Nightfalls, under the rising
blue moon there is a secret
passageway.
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Come and dance with me…
I want to dance all over the world
I want to sneak out the back door
and meet up with you.
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Trying so desperately
to catch my breath.
I am soaking wet,
drench half way dead.
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I never comprehended the why's
of the cycle of life when I was younger.
It has been surely less then what I hoped for,
but amusingly more then what I had expected.
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Love's Battlefields

Don't waste your time.
I know you can see
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I am the vein that travels within
the petals of a red rose.

I am the early summer breeze that
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Tap, tap, tap, and gentle taps.
Millions of snowflakes passed
by my bedroom window this
morning.The wandering Snowflakes
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I hate Valentine's Day! ! !
Who invented this
smoochy stuff?
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