Janine Alyssa Navarro Poems

Boxes with your name on them
I’ve wanted them all
more than I wanted closure;
but deep inside, I’m no treat.
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He promised her the skies
Griffin wings even, eternal flight
But she wasn’t invincible
Or capable of well wishes
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Outside the window
I see that it’s wintering.
My three jars of solid sweet
Made of thoughts and several lies
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Ferocious claws
Are ripping at my insides
I wince, writhe in pain
But nobody can see
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my intentions
are written on this little leaf,
spread across the floor
are naked words
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Do you feel
What I do
Deep, deep down?
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The doors stumble
Before they were opened
Frostbite is for the brave
Clumsy are the mornings
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A mass of undisputed marble
How does he make me turn white
It cost me a couple of colors
Probably even a stigma or two,
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Paved with fragments of glass and acidic dreams
Do we care to enter another year?
You caught my eye, as you walked alone in this grayness
Still you reached out your hand, I instantly responded;
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I’ll turn away from the touch of your hand
I won’t respond to your fervent cries
I’d let you go, astray, on your own
Despite your tries, pleading,
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