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The mirror betrays me
Its reflection only shows my flaws
Is that really what I look like?
Is that what you see in me?
Is this all I am?
"a mirror reflects one's true self."
That's what you said
Is it true?
Am I an ugly, repulsive, hideous monster?
 Nov 2024 Lumin Guerrero
afrah
The wall is strong and firm.
Its is truly well built.
Its exterior is very resilient.

But once a time:
A small crack it formed,
Crack my crack & one day a big hit;
That’s when it crumbled.

Piece by piece it broke,
The interior which was bottled up;
Finally broke down revealing:
Its vulnerable self.


It was fragile and frail.
Foreign to the world
Foreign to itself.

Sometimes lonely in a crowded room.
Sometimes too much in a lonely room.
It took time to be strong.
But to be weak? was impossible

It looks perfect when met first;
But given enough time you’ll see:
The messy side.
The patchy side.

Sometimes the wall is me,
As always and forever.
#numb#feels empty#feels nothing
Are the words that come out of my mouth really mine?
Am I just a brainwashed child?
Are the thoughts I type really mine?
Am I just filled with false lies?
Are the letters and constants I repeat in my head really mine?
Am I believing verses that aren't even true?
Are the actions I do really mine?
Am I eating up your words like you want me to?
Are the looks and trends I follow my own free will?
Am I following morals that are really mine?
Are your words even true?
Or are your words filled with tricks and lies?
questions questions questions that only god knows if they will be answered
And they believe her
They all believe her
Every word that comes out of her mouth
myths passed as reality
pure lies that they eat like a gourmet meal
illusions treated as facts
pure lies that they believe like religion
fantasy treated like nonfiction
pure lies that they buy like gold
deceptions marketed as valuable facts
They all believe
So why won't you believe me?
 Nov 2024 Lumin Guerrero
LLillis
The coldest night air
Seems no different than the
Space around the stars.
The mercury is dropping faster then we expected. It’s not quite polar vortex weather yet but the dry air and static warns of its approach.
I want to take one day
To just go out and play
To forget about the grown up ways

To run, jump and romp
Pretend I'm Godzilla and just stomp
Or be a creature from the swamp

Make mud pies let them bake in the sun
Flap my arms like a bird when I run
**** it I just want to have fun

To see the world again trough the eyes of my inner child
When everything left me so beguiled
To see things in that why,has been such a very long while

Innocence left me at age eight
Since then all I've seen is hate
On a scale my misery would be hard to rate

Is it to much to ask for just ONE day
To go out and have some fun and play
Just one single solitaire day without the gray
And she's still standing there,
On the shore of her memories.
With her lost dreams and forgotten laughs,
With her vanished hope and obliviated time.
With her stolen reminisces and extinct days.
In the blink of an eye, the time flew by,
In the flash of an eye, the seventeen year old grew up, why...
And she's still standing there,
Slowly sinking down the earth.
Wondering when did she lose it all.
When did she lose her smile,
When did she lose her mother's hug.
When did she lose her golden days,
When did she lose her life.
When did she turn thirty.
In the blink of an eye, the time flew by,
In the flash of an eye, the seventeen year old grew up, why...
The korean drama 'Thirty but Seventeen' inspired me to write this.
 Nov 2024 Lumin Guerrero
Shea
A veil of fear
Floats around my face
Aimlessly
I was some starry eyed child
Never taught self control

The fear of aging
And living through this day in age
Consumes me
And wanders aimlessly
In my brain
But still seems to stop me in my tracks

The things I’ve done
Remind me not only
That I am imperfect
But that I am aging
Growing into a starry eyed woman
Who learned that she can change
Because when you stop growing
You are dead
And I am full of life
I have nothing but time

And even so
Even if this veil of fear
Floats around my face
There are things I can only
Learn with time
There are things that only
Come with age
And I am aging all the time
I am growing all the time

So in that time
I will throw the veil from off my face
I am not afraid to age
I am not afraid to change
the world is unjust
unready for you, little one.
just hold on
just one moment — wait,
please.

don’t go yet. wait
for me, my legs are slower
than they used to be.
brittle, you know.
you and i are both

getting older.
wait —
don’t go yet. stay
just one moment.
i’m not ready.
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