Is it worth it?
The pain you caused?
The hurt you brought?
The damage you wrought?
The heart you broke
The soul you destroyed
The love you lost
When you said
“Sorry… Goodbye”
Metro prices rise
School Children Jump Barriers
Wide Scale Evasion
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Marches everywhere
All classes and all ages
Gringos Not allowed
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Unlikely mascot
For Chile’s revolution
Dancing Pikachu
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Marches are Peaceful
Except for the bad element
They watch the world burn
You, Are the reason I wake in the morning
You, are the sweet dreams that fill my nights
You, are the smile forever on my lips
You, are the stars within my eyes
You, are my heart, my breath, my soul
You, are my life
You, are my love
You, are with me
Airplanes fly over
Soldiers march along the street
The diceocho
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The ground is shaking
But I don’t feel anything
Engrossed in my work
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I light a candle
An offering for loved ones
To show that I care
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They are there
Upon me when I first see you
Green with just the faintest hint of brown
Sparkling in the lights of the city,
Like the finest diamonds
I am drawn to them,
As if they’re all there is I want to know
I get close, they get wider
I see myself looking back
Deep from within your eyes
You saved the letters I wrote
The rough prose and youthful hand an unfamiliar receptacle for familiar feelings
I found them in your dresser drawer
The one place truly yours in a life totally shared
I had never opened it
Not in all the years since we moved in together
Not through the highs and the lows of decades together
Not even those final hard years of sickness
I thought about keeping them
A memory of how I felt
The love that makes what I have to do the hardest thing I ever did
But I don’t need to
My love for you is the only thing still bright as the rest of me fades
I instead have decided to place them with you
In the casket
As you take your final rest
For those letters
Like my heart
Are for now and forever
For you
I lit the candles
An offering to the gods
To help whom I love
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Seven Months ago
I was melting in summer
What difference it is
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Filters for my tank
Clogged with green strands of algae
Clearing it won’t last
Rain came here last week
It cleaned the air up nicely
The snow was so close
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My three year old niece
She is repeating my words
Have to watch my tongue
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Steel yourself young man
For Green beer and pipe music
Patrick’s day is near
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Been told I’ve a talk
Haven’t a clue where or when
Some preparation
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Over one year past
I tied the knot bye a tower
A year of pure love.
First trip from Chile
To not so warm Florida
I saw manatees
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Queuing for visas
Lines going around the block
Many hours to wait
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Job applications
Interviews, practice classes
Lots of work to do
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