Poems from Stephanie Martinez1

Pain Pain is a physical If not mental A true forever lasting madness The madness is a sensation That starts out as pain Then goes to the...
Maybe if I Smile In a while He’ll fall in love With my faint call For attention Or Maybe if I close my eyes And I silence my cries He’ll...
Once new Never used Put her back With a crack In her heart The start Is her finish Diminish Her smile For a while Just until Lust Is...
The sun shines down on my demise Rise, rise up Dreams will die Lie with her While the future succumbs Beguile her now While the heat is up...
I wonder what its like for a guy to strike out To finish the night with haze and doubt What is the attraction if not physical With these...