Janine Alyssa Navarro Poems

If breaking in two
Is what happens
To everything
That matters,
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supposedly therapeutic
but I think my poetry
has turned schizophrenic
I think I’ve gone mad
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I’m brave enough
To go to bed
Even if you’re not in it
Your words
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I love how you’ve braided your regrets
To the playful corners of my hair
Your dirty secrets and left-overs
Dangle from my loose shoulders
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Prepare yourself for the avalanche
These marks won’t make you immune
From the feelings of stone and cold;
There’s no escape, you’re meant to be stolen
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waiting with bated breath
I feel the knot in the rope tighten
remember who you were
when you remembered me
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Notice the goop of mascara
From the sides of her eyes
Her tears caged her into you
What did you do to her?
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Fingers dripping into her surface
Kiss the inevitable breaking down
Of who he was, into who she is
Hear what he says, feel what she says
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Eyelids drooping
Shoulders aching, they fail
The momentary shake
Of the glass on the table
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sitting in my corner
I’ve already a journal
that made me count the days
until I eradicate shame
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