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Jose Alvarez

If you don't learn to write your own story, someone else will write it for you

6 poems·Since May 2013
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Heart Written

June 8, 2013
You can take my writing You became the writer, I was just the expression Burn the writing, like you burned my lungs I can't look at it It brings me sunrise But the sun has to set at some point Now the full moon showers me with darkness I can now let the snow Burn the soles of my feet And my soul itself Mama, I caught the cold, and their words Black pulses my veins Despair runs in my bones They ache, my face jolts at the sight I wanted inspiration I got a depression
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