A noisy restaurant
Listen
Focus
Beyond the dishes
The music

When the emotion comes up
It feels like heartburn
Like acid
Clenching my throat
My ears go watery

To love reading
Writing and words
And not be able to
Communicate
Frustrated

A palomino gallops
Beside the highway
Look out the window
Rides over green hills
Through yellow flowers

Tomorrow
Has not yet come
It’s promises yet to be broken
Tomorrow
Is bigger

My grandfather
told my father
when he proposed
to my mother
on one condition

Some I like to share
Fresh out of the oven
Don’t let it get cold
That’s why I wrote it
Emotions in that moment

I cannot apologize
For writing what I feel inside
If it is hard to read
It is harder to live
I will understand

La presión atrapada
Busca por donde salir
Tapo mi boca
Se me sale por los ojos
Tapo mis ojos

Apathy and incompetence
In healthcare
A fax they didn’t send
Prescriptions delayed
Labs to do again