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616 · Dec 2015
The Dream Machine
Rafael Melendez Dec 2015
Giving me the strangest dreams at night, as I look for her in a place where she could be anywhere in the universe. I'll always be looking, through every dream and every nightmare. Driven by nothing more then gears and bolts, a cold and calculating hunk of metal. **I've become a machine, and I've been designed a failure.
614 · Jun 2015
The Black Sky
Rafael Melendez Jun 2015
There I was becoming apart of a time unknown to me, with a woman I had barely met. "I'm going to tell you a story.", she said.
"This sky you see above you was once a bright romantic vision to gander upon. I used to ponder  each night of all the lessons that could be taken from such a vast wondrous space,  but over time it darkened, you couldn't even tell the night from day. Only empty space was left. Yet, despite this , it's mystifying spell was only strengthened and my curiosity was brighter than ever before."
She spoke of the irrefutable wisdom each had to lend, how neither light nor dark were more significant than the other because they were indifferent.

That black sky that once shined incandescently became the first wonder of my world. My god, what a cold sight it was.
I was very sad about this story, I wrote so much down and it all got erased. I had to attempt to write what I felt before all over again. Was very difficult.
610 · Sep 2015
Can't Bite The Hand
Rafael Melendez Sep 2015
She said you can hate me as much as it would hurt. She sobbed as she cried those words. For the love of my life to ever even consider that I could hate her, it broke my heart.
How could I ever possibly hate her, she created me.
599 · Aug 2016
Leave Him Be
Rafael Melendez Aug 2016
There is only so much a man can write before he is someone else entirely. So leave him be while he is still himself. Run away.
596 · Sep 2023
MT
Rafael Melendez Sep 2023
MT
Old poems.
Old me.

Lonely nights like these I wonder if I really still exist if I'm not so full of youth. I'm still young, but it feels like there's something missing in my heart everyday.
I miss who I once was.

That boy who was always trying to impress.
I feel I've given up in a sense. On being me, like an empty slate was the best form of self preservation. It's sad.

Like a character born from trauma, that's so colorless.

It's hard to differentiate sometimes, if I've missed you, or myself more. Or what we had, the innocence disappeared so quickly. Too quickly.
594 · Sep 2019
The Silver Lined Tragedy
Rafael Melendez Sep 2019
All my old writing was as accurate as premonition, as if I wanted a tragedy to JOLT ME from my sleep.

The silver lining is I suppose I got what I wanted,
it just wasn't the tragic self harm I dreamed of.
More like a tragic mistake that destroyed the boy I once was, and the girl I once knew.
Premonitions are old tales now, time keeps on moving.
588 · Sep 2015
Repeat
Rafael Melendez Sep 2015
A rendition destroyed.
A composition disforming.
A mistake was made.
A failure was gained.
A regret pondered.
A lesson never taught.
A cosmic orchestration to be repeated over and over again.
Stuck on repeat.
583 · Jun 2015
Lickety-Split
Rafael Melendez Jun 2015
To think that they would speak of desires and wants so soon, want shall bring disappointment, disappointment will only bring sadness. I've come to this wretched place to speak of a beautiful end for the each of us. Disgusting parasites leech the middle and beginning so ferociously that the end is only going to crash and tumble.
Take time with what is going to take place throughout this burdensome story, or your end will be atrocious.
His name was Lickety Split.
578 · Dec 2015
Stutter
Rafael Melendez Dec 2015
Here comes the policeman, tucking in his stomach, puffing up his chest. I play out what I'll say in my head, and try to clear the fear stirred up by a bad daydream. He calls to me, asks my name. I hand him my license, as I stutter at an  attempt to know what I've done wrong. He ignores me, and has me get out of my car. I try to keep calm, but it proved difficult, as I hadn't mentally prepared very well for this, and we've all seen the stories that always have been.
So I put my hands on my car and stay very still, but to my surprise I feel a slight sting as I graze the hood.
I was falling.

What had just happened? What was this eerie silence that filled the air? Why has this chaotic world suddenly come to a halt?
I began to feel sleepy after I struck the ground, a strange feeling of drowsiness and pain. Was I dying? There are lights, bright and obnoxious; I see one, no, two people lift me up, but it wasn't me. It couldn't have been me, because I was watching them go.

They were forgetting, they were leaving my life by the door.

*Please, come back.
576 · Oct 2015
Anxious
Rafael Melendez Oct 2015
Even if it was dark, things felt a little bit brighter.
When I laughed, I always felt like I couldn't stop.
When I smiled, she'd smile back.

Now it seems so quiet, but yet so loud.
I'm screaming inside, and I'm kicking and I'm punching.
I'm screaming so loud that I've lost my voice, I can't speak and I can't hear.  I'm just another tree, and I feel like I'm going to fall. Will anyone hear me?
575 · Sep 2017
Happy Birthday
Rafael Melendez Sep 2017
You overlooked my past, made me feel something I haven't felt in a long time. All of the songs that brought me down, that I used to love, make sound
once again.
So I'll take all of the terrible things that have ever happened to you, and make them disappear.
All your fears and tears will never have a moment as long as I'm here.
It's what I was made for.
And you will always make me happy, I know it, it's what you were made for.
For the love of my life. She 's yet to have seen this, but I'm planning to give it to her as a note on her birthday.
573 · Nov 2014
Figure Of A Sort.
Rafael Melendez Nov 2014
Worry was the name of the ones she loved. Ever since she was young, her eyes always gazed at her loved ones, even from a distance. She never stopped watching, and they imagined it was only her job, but it wasn’t. It was her gift.
Her name was protection, and she loved them very much.
570 · Sep 2015
Youvolution
Rafael Melendez Sep 2015
Happiness at every point, dreams and activity around every corner.  Motivation isn't a busy process without a one single queen or king.
For friends.
568 · Sep 2023
Gold and Dreams
Rafael Melendez Sep 2023
The air I breathe, gold and dreams.
You are everything I need.

Nothing else compares.

Through life and death, I know our love will be written on our graves, among many others, our love would never fade.

Kept through dirt, mold, and dust.
Come dawn, come dusk.

I'll always love you.
Cheesy, I know.

Inspired by Romeo and Juliet.
567 · Apr 2021
Heart Attack
Rafael Melendez Apr 2021
Deja vu yesterday, I felt a weight. My thoughts don't betray.
Something was coming.
Someone in my family would be laid to rest.

I didn't know

It would be me.
559 · Aug 2015
Chaos
Rafael Melendez Aug 2015
Her fingerprints were a maze I was hopelessly lost in.
Her eyes were the sky I could only ever look up at in awe, never to break through the clouds.
Her lips were the mountains I would die on, to forever be a warning of what lay ahead.
Her heart was a fire I would gaze at in the night, never to grasp in my palms.

She was chaos.
Not to be controlled.
554 · Jan 2016
Drowsy
Rafael Melendez Jan 2016
An insomniac of life, not quite awake, but not asleep through the days and the nights. Using the remainder of his innocence as a trail to show him where he's been and where he hasn't. Leaving behind scraps of paper to show them it wasn't a complete waste of time.
Drowsily talking to himself in his head as a voice echoes through his ears.

"Oh.. Wait, what did you just say?"
547 · Dec 2015
Foxhole
Rafael Melendez Dec 2015
I've dug myself a hole, deeper than that of my heart. It's cold sometimes, but it keeps me warmer than out there for the most part.
Sometimes I pretend I can't hear the wind howling above my head, the ignorance is bliss, but I can't pretend that the rain doesn't come, as I feel each. cold. hit.
Sleepy writings, may as well be drunk babbles.
547 · Jan 2017
Cast
Rafael Melendez Jan 2017
A slight slip of the fingers, like an ocean, as the sky is filled with wind in every which direction. I let you go, like a cast of a sail.
545 · Sep 2016
See Me
Rafael Melendez Sep 2016
I no longer want others to understand, I want them to see me. They keep staring at the curtains, once they've opened, but not at what's standing right in front of them. Maybe it's selfish, but to me, this is my show. That I am performing for them, and I am no clown. I am a poet. So please just see me, stop trying to understand me.
A lot of me.. Honestly.
539 · Dec 2015
Untitled
Rafael Melendez Dec 2015
My vision of beauty may be distorted, but I can still recall enough of my innocence to know that you were absolutely beautiful.
533 · Mar 2017
Something
Rafael Melendez Mar 2017
I have been thrown into a shell of a world to fit in. Hardening as clay in the heat of the summer daylight. Then pulled into an ocean of nothingness carried by the waves of the moon.
The nature of this dimension is like a neighborhood I never found, like a girl I never met, like a life I never lived. Incomprehensible, yet I can string these words together and call it something.
533 · May 2015
The Saint's Trial
Rafael Melendez May 2015
A girl appeared to him one day, as beautiful and virtuous as Venus herself. As a saint he was inquired to leave her be, one could even say that an appearance such as this could be named a trial of faith, an incredibly cruel trial. And oh how unquestionably worthy of his title he was, but not nearly worth as much as a caress of her warm hand. He almost immediately let out a cry as he cursed his god. He left his eternal oath to enter the beauty and darkness of the unknown. What a wonderfully dark abyss it was.
532 · Oct 2015
Empty
Rafael Melendez Oct 2015
What am I to do to fill this gap inbetween us. Maybe I'll fill it with the trash I have laying around my room, or in my soul. Maybe I'll fill it with a million hours of occupation, money, and material objects. Maybe another could fill it with their baggage and sadness, their big eyes with questions of doubt and love.
But no, don't you dare trust a thing I say, because I have not a clue what could possibly fill a hole the size of the universe.
521 · Aug 2015
Heartbeats
Rafael Melendez Aug 2015
Always wished they would die at the same time, always wished it would be painless for one another.
The next day in the newspaper an article arose, two dead in an accident, doctors say their hearts stopped simultaneously.
It was almost like a message to every lover who set out in this world, no matter how terrifying that moment could have been, it was reduced to nearly nothing when compared to being apart. It was ironic, they used something they feared deeply to find peace in such a petrifying experience.

It was beautiful.
515 · Nov 2016
Long Gone
Rafael Melendez Nov 2016
I grow tired, though the early sun rises. And I'll be long gone come the blue moon. Long gone.
Yet another sun will rise, and another moon will wane.
I'll be long gone.
Yet another night.
514 · Sep 2015
Whatever
Rafael Melendez Sep 2015
The one you truly cared about wants to forget you, not even your shadow will be left to remember. All that ever was you is gone now.
To die from a broken heart truly is the worst death of all.
512 · Jan 2021
Love is Addicting
Rafael Melendez Jan 2021
Your mom is right to be weary of me, her intuition isn't wrong. We're one and the same. She wants to **** me for taking you away, and I'm addicted to you and everything of you.
She isn't wrong to be afraid of losing you, but she can't blame me for that, only herself, because I know you're addicted to me too.
512 · Feb 2016
Invisible Man
Rafael Melendez Feb 2016
When you're hurt and don't know what to do. I can be your invisible man, You can ignore me and I won't ignore you.
You can keep me around when you're feeling down, and I'll be sure to know my place. You can pretend you haven't seen my face, that you don't even know me, like a brand new confessional.
Once I've lost my use, I'll leave you be with no excuse.
509 · Apr 2016
Shatter
Rafael Melendez Apr 2016
Some nights it feels like my soul is just shattering, and when I wake up the next day I'm just picking up the pieces.
Staying awake for far too long.
506 · Jun 2016
Vessel
Rafael Melendez Jun 2016
Phantoms burnt prints into his bones, left behind marks and indications to let the world know of the vacant vessel he was abandoned with. A hushed physical being that never spouted a murmur of spirit. A vessel in need of a soul to split.
493 · Oct 2015
Phantom Pain
Rafael Melendez Oct 2015
Suddenly I could taste her breath in the air, almost as if I had just kissed her.
But I hadn't, I was alone in my bed.

I'm haunted, by some sort of phantom pain.
489 · Jun 2016
Hangman
Rafael Melendez Jun 2016
Walking the line, sleeping for two, dreaming of better days. Eyes for you, a hangman's last sight.
He's only got eyes for you.
484 · Jan 2018
Nothing is Impossible
Rafael Melendez Jan 2018
Life is inconceivable, an impossibility within itself. Indescribable.
Therefore, every moment we live is an impossibility.
We are the impossible that we so passionately wish to attain.
475 · Feb 2022
Her
Rafael Melendez Feb 2022
Her
The touch of her hand on mine, fingers clasped tightly.
Her arms wrapped around me, squeezing the life out of me.
Her lips, soft and light as heaven's touch, they part, and
God, you always sound like an angel when you tell me you love me.

I wish I'd remember when we argue, so I can change.
I wish I didn't only remember these things after we fight, maybe things would end differently.
I'm afraid one day it will be too late.

Please, never let it be too late.
474 · Jul 2015
Carry Me
Rafael Melendez Jul 2015
The day he met her was the day he wanted to be carried.  It felt as though he had died then was resuscitated back to life by a bolt of lightning.
She was beautiful in every sense of the word. A goddess in the reflections of his eyes.
Hair that was hot to the touch, eyes that could pierce darkness with ease, and a smile that could speak any tongue.
And he knew, the day that she goes will be the day that he goes as well.
471 · Oct 2015
Through A Looking Glass
Rafael Melendez Oct 2015
If even only for a second things could seem clear, I would choke down every last drip and drop of alcohol in this unfreezing world.
Every last drag and hit of each and every intoxicating drug.
I would reveal every single one of my addictions through this shallow looking glass to inspect for the rest of my life.

Including this addiction and drug we call love.
469 · Jul 2015
Anything
Rafael Melendez Jul 2015
The only mistake to be made was before death, thinking to myself as life was leaving these old lungs. While another was begging for one last word, some way to keep them going.
I would do anything to speak to them even if only one last time, I would haunt anyone and everyone if it meant I could get even one letter across.
Even if my only form of engrossment was through scarlet rivers, sacrificing the brightest of souls, or overcoming the darkest and most treacherous of hollows. To reach her. Absolutely anything.
468 · Mar 2017
Again, Again, Again
Rafael Melendez Mar 2017
That indescribable feeling.

I've been inhuman for so long. And suddenly I fall in love again. Not with a person, but with a feeling. Now I am stuck somewhere else in my head, for once in what seems like forever.
And now it has gone again, I'm on the floor writing of something that has fluttered away. Like a secret that can never be a secret again.
Like a memory I can never relive again.
467 · Feb 2023
The Gladiator and The Lion
Rafael Melendez Feb 2023
You don't know
How desperately I love you
But my stimulations drain me
Like ******* from the mind.

My heart, and my brain
The gladiator, and the lion
An unstoppable force,
an immovable object,
The Moon, and the Sun
Heaven, and Hell

I want so badly for you to understand how desparate I am to love you through my worst nature.
I wish I wasn't the way I am sometimes.
466 · Jan 2015
Living.
Rafael Melendez Jan 2015
Throughout the years, death became foreign. He always exclaimed to her he would live forever, that way she'd never slightly be in sight of sorrow. But as each of them aged, his promise seemed unreal.
   Yet, as he lay atop his death bed, he did not apologize. Instead, he only spoke the words,"I love you".
And he did not lie.
462 · Mar 2017
One Day, One Night
Rafael Melendez Mar 2017
I'm not asking you to be mine for the rest of our lives. But can you be mine one day at a time, maybe even one night?
Keep in mind.
461 · Nov 2018
Never
Rafael Melendez Nov 2018
Can you hate me now, and forever more?
Will you let me be, in agony. Without you?
I say no, never now, nor ever.
460 · Oct 2015
About The Ones I Love
Rafael Melendez Oct 2015
No matter how many times I could write about you leaving, no amount of words could ever prepare me for it. I never knew what I would do when that day came, I put myself into so many scenarios. I suppose at least I no longer need to test myself.

The answer all along was nothing at all.
There was not a **** thing I could do.
457 · Sep 2015
Road Kill
Rafael Melendez Sep 2015
Road **** laying in the gutters on the side of the street. Empty feeling of dispare as he ponders on the dread of death. Second comes sadness as he stares in the rear view mirror.
He turns to look at her in her big brown eyes as he tells her that he saw.
Together they faced the **** each and every time they were on the road.
As much as he tried to protect her from this, all they could do was acknowledge it together.
456 · Dec 2018
Snap of My Fingers
Rafael Melendez Dec 2018
I used to think with the snap of my fingers I changed the universe in that moment.
Now the years have passed and it feels as though it was all in the span of the snap of my fingers.
Was it I that changed the universe, or the universe that changed me in the end?
Rafael Melendez Oct 2015
They say pain makes for great inspiration, but I would have given all of my inspiration to have never experienced this.
Or should I say I don't want all of this writing material?
Rafael Melendez Oct 2020
Time goes on, as I grow older, the fear and doubts grow with me into a chasm in my mind. You fall awake, I'm another year older and you don't know who I am. You fall away deeper and deeper into this chasm in my mind.
This abyssal feeling wakes me from sleep terrified that you aren't next to me. Only a ghost in my arms, staring into my eyes, feeding this chasm in my mind.
453 · Dec 2018
Running from Life
Rafael Melendez Dec 2018
We wish to have loved and lived, and we wish to have died then to not have tried at all.
A piece of trash had this written on it in my dream last night.
449 · Nov 2018
Making Amends
Rafael Melendez Nov 2018
Sometimes making amends to someone you did wrong, is moving on.

And hating someone so much, isn't letting go.
I hope you really let go,  because I'm moving on.
A poem for a friend.
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