Karen Esperanza Poems

Whales in the skies,
please don't tell me lies,
I was always afraid
of your deep blue seas.
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If the pain was clear,
flesh searing with shock
of voltages adhered perfectly well
with the knowledge of inflicting
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I hate to think of life as a game
But if you win
That means someone has to lose
If you eat a tomato
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We are the ones
who fly too close to the sun,
with grace and such powerful ease.
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They'll smother you with all these images,
of all these things you're supposed to do,
all these things you're supposed to see.
And they look so appealing.
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I want desire
By the fire
Of a setting sun
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Sometimes I like to think that,
We possess certain instincts.
That at birth we keep ancestral knowledge.
Because then our bones could not deceive us,
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Down, Down, Down,
We go down the same road we've always driven on
Down to the familiar place where dreams live on
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Make me forget for a while,
that I'm not anyone at all.
That only a small shrewd smile,
would alleviate this fall.
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He spends his life,
in a constant watch.
We watch him too,
we watch him stalk.
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