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Ben Palomino Jun 2022
The many lessons
That’s she taught me

The first was how
To let her go

The second blessing
She Bestowed me…
Well honestly
I wasn’t listening

(Foolish child)

So that one
I’ll never know

But
The third…

The third one
Struck me
Through my shame
Teaching me how to love
And in turn
The fourth was
How to love myself
All the same

The fifth one
Brought me to my knees
So my Goddess is to whom I pray
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
Staring

Into the night

I found myself

A stranger

To the darkest

Parts of my mind

Now

Starring back at me

with a million faces

And

A thousand eyes

 

I met a being

Who knows

Hundreds of names

But

still couldn’t

Tell you mine

 

It told me

Many stories

With hidden messages

Underlined

With rhyme

 

Sending me off

To fill your dreams

In-between

Your solemn cries
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
Once in a dream
I inhaled the night sky
Becoming one
With its hue

I replaced every star
With a sigh

All except for the ones
That reminded me of you

I then kept
Just enough of the sun
To torture it till Jun

Planting six seeds
For my lover

And grew them under
The pink moon
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
Dying grass beneath my feet

Now ever softer the blades

 

The day begins to crumble

As I start to hear

Whispers over my shoulder

From beyond the grave

 

They tell me of a goddess

Grown in the meadow

Once somber a slave

 

So I became their conduit

Blindly pulling these words

From the haze

 

Selling off a part of my soul

Just to give her my name
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
Raised by Gods

That can’t sing

 

Her love became

The prayers

That they would read

And

Bestowed with the blessings

Her smile would seed

 

Awakened my mind

Beyond gold and green

 

Where

I found my self bound

 

To the one

Who found me
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
To comprehend a Goddess

Is like meeting a love

You’ve never known.

 

To shy away from its light,

Because it is Blinding?

Or too beautiful to behold?
Ben Palomino Jun 2022
If life is the reality

That you dream

 

Then dare I say 

 

That I’ve met you before

Somewhere in-between

The in-between

 

Where connections were made

But left unseen

 

A couple souls

That slipped through the seams

Of time

Like sand in the hands

Of greed

 

Casted into the fire

I saw her dance

With the life of spring

Turned to glass

The spirits called her

Persephone
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