Tu Me Manques

Upon a hill and beneath a tree
Your sword in hand and hair blown free
You're smiling face and sea blue eyes
Are a waiting home but I'm paralyzed
The hill is too far; the tree is gone
The place beneath the sky there is wrong
I am trapped in memories dressed as dreams
Why do nightmares dress in yesterday's seams?
Where is the hill and the old oak tree?
Where does your sword rest alone waiting?
You're smiling face and sea blue eyes
Are nowhere near and I'm paralyzed
The hill is lost and the tree is gone
You're missing from me and I'm alone
Tu me manques but still appear in dreams
Why do nightmares dress in yesterday's seams?
You're missing from me with your eyes like sea
Tu me manques mon amour, do you miss me?
I'm paralyzed and waiting...
...but this is all a dream

Elizabeth Azpurua

Loneliness

My friend looks like loneliness
She has a dress but it's all a mess
It looks like blankets
My friend she sticks around
She often clings to me laying down
She will not leave here
My friend is like my shadow
She's following or leading where I go
She likes to linger
She has her hair in knots and tangles
Sometimes it's me she truly strangles
She's a disaster
My friend she looks like loneliness
She leaves my life such a bloody mess
She's pulling me from the door
She's locking me in
She won't let me out
Some days she whispers others she shouts
She's like a dark cloud inside my head
Sometimes she whispers...better off...
Silence! The noise she makes is so loud
She stays although I say she's not allowed
She's rolling over my bed, she's pulling off my shoes
She's tangled in my hair, she's always on the loose
She's a disaster, a sickly thing
Stuck to the walls, the door, the ceiling
Everywhere I look and everywhere there's me
A shadow she is looming, covering everything
My friend she looks like loneliness
She has a dress but it's all a mess
It looks like blankets
She's in the blankets and she's holding me down
She's holding me down
She's holding me down



Elizabeth Azpurua