How could someone who knew nothing about love,

Teach me so much about it?

A. Garcia

My heart is covered with broken arrows

A. Garcia

Love is a gun

A. Garcia

I filled your heart until it overflowed

I gave you all of myself until I felt weak

Your beauty made this world a little more bearable for people like me

People who feel everything

My tears and the rain meeting as one

You see, I’m my only enemy

Pulling a knife out of my back, while I’m sharpening another one

The world is spinning around me

Running laps, no mercy

I cannot think straight, let alone catch my breath

But then I close my eyes, pushing the tears out

And I think about you, then all of a sudden…

It’s just rain landing on my cheeks, no tears

The knife? It’s just imaginary

The world is in sync with my steps

And my breath? Well, you still take that away

I love you

A. Garcia

This feeling…

It’s so familiar

It’s like I have a plan now

“Focus on yourself”

It’s what I tell myself

“Don’t give in”

It’s what I plead to myself

“Maybe I’m too much”

It’s what I’m scared to tell myself

I thought I found my home

But maybe it’s just another painful layover

A. Garcia

You’re the one

The one who can break me

And I’ll be there picking up the pieces

Asking you to put me back together

This love

This rosey love is dangerous

Dangerous for someone like me

Someone who’s world could be crumbling

Instead of saving myself

I’ll be thinking about if I told you how much I loved you yet

A. Garcia

True poetry is not forced by rhymes and regulated rules

True poetry comes from parts of ourselves that we are unsure of

You cannot regulate that

You cannot regulate the words I choose to lay on paper, my canvas

It’s not filled with edits

It’s filled with perfection because my heart is the only critic that matters

If you don’t agree,

Then write your own

A. Garcia

I just wanted to feel the love

Instead, I felt the ignorance

Next time, you’ll just hear the silence

Feel the distance

Realize the hurt

– A. Garcia

I feel you slipping away

Day after day after day

Your life woven into mine

We’ve become so intertwined

In such a short period of time

You became more than just mine

The sun had your name on it

But I’ve become burnt by it

My gaze you no longer attend to

Despite you being the one who I fixate on

You’ll continue to be my fixation

Until I have no other inclination

But to settle under the shade

Where I will no longer burn, instead I’ll slowly fade away

A. Garcia

I shouldn’t, we shouldn’t, I shouldn’t be part of a mediocre love

After all of the heartbreaks, after all of the I wishes and I wants…

This is not a trophy that I can hold up to my old heartaches and scream, fuck you!

Instead, I would say…

you made me feel more than I feel now.

A. Garcia