Out of breath.

Heart beating through my chest.

Someone please pull my reigns.

Rage has filled my veins.

It’s your face I want to pound.

It’s too late;

Nobody can hold me down.

Tracy Salinas Rodriguez 2018

It’s true, I have a bleeding heart.

I don’t think that was smart.

You did not even care.

Don’t you dare.

Love me?

No!

Tracy Salinas Rodriguez 2018

My friend, the Sea.

It is where I lay my heart,

a place where I can be, me.

As the tide comes forth, it then will take my sorrow off shore.

As I look upon the distance, the mirage reflects a beautiful glisten.

I smell the sea, as it recovers me.

Whilst the seagulls sing their song, my troubles float far and beyond.

Tracy Salinas Rodriguez 2018

The friend of the young

Is now an enemy I so eagerly run from.

I hold my chest

While it takes my breath.

The air is still

No longer a thrill.

I can only take a moment

Before I feel its burden.

Nothing is enjoyable

In fact it's miserable.

I beg for a shift in the wind

I'll know while the windmill spins.

Oh how I long for an Autumn's eve

To bring relief from the Summer's heat.

I learned how to cook your favorite meal.

This was the deal.

You said I needed more femininity.

I got fake nails and made myself pretty.

I didn't buckle even when you broke my heart and were disloyal.

My head broke each day.

I tried to figure ways to make you stay.

One day, as I looked in the mirror, this perplexion suddenly was clearer.

It wasn't me, it was definitely you.

I'm no longer that person you so mercilessly confused.

Tracy Salinas Rodriguez 2017

It's getting loud and crowded. He says he has a place we can go where it's quiet. She obliged because the attraction is intense. He leads her to the front yard and pulls her top up and her right breast is exposed; her nipple erect. She breaths in as he grabs her and plunges his face into her mouth, with a kiss that makes her body feel chills, from her neck to her buckling knees. He takes her in the house and as she undresses, he tells her I'm sorry but I can't do this because your panties are not sexy...

Tracy Salinas Rodriguez

Do you remember when I asked, "don't you know that you deserve better"? I reminded you of your worth in a long and meaningful letter. I corresponded your cry for help, with no reply from you. I understand now; why I never heard back. You were already gone, because he acted fast. I wish you would have let me known sooner. Perhaps if I had known, you wouldn't be six feet under with your spirit now translunar.

Tracy Salinas Rodriguez 2017

Do not be naive;

He too will leave.

Think this one through;

Nobody is capable of loving you.

If only you would listen to me,

You will save yourself the agony.

His heart is of bad soil.

False promises will make your innocence spoil.

He is a bad seed.

Your spirit will die indeed.