Trio of Sad Poems: American Dream, The Awakening, and Stuck by Teresita Blanco

2/6/2013

American Dream

by Teresita Blanco

Shatter the mirror.

Erase all illusions.

Swallow the bitter pill.

This medicine will

Cure all your ills.

As the heart hardens,

You’ll soon harness

The lies they fed you.

Your old delusions

Brought you this far.

At what cost

Did you let your ember

Be drowned by your tears?

By the fears

That bind you.

In bliss you chased

The American dream

That soon turned

Into a nightmare.

You cannot find whom to blame!

Nor can you erase your shame!

2/12/2013

The Awakening

by Teresita Blanco

For how long did I sleep?

I cannot remember.

How many days have gone by?

I care not to remember.

Night and day are one

Inside this pit.

Why do I wake

When I wish to sleep?

Am I awake?

I cannot tell…

I hear a faint whisper,

Whisper of what, I know not…

Why do I wake

When I only wish to sleep?

Yes, let me still anew

My beating heart.

Its sound is deafening

In this still silence.

Silence life,

Let me return to death.

Why do I live

When I only desire death?

2/14/2013

Stuck

by Teresita Blanco

Stuck in the now,

There is no way out

But Thanatos’ grip.

I take many trips

With the vague hope

That I might learn to cope

With the same old no.

Above this stony hills

There awaits my bills. 

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