Class Assignment

We are a species afflicted.
Diseased with melancholera,
We race to the nearest shopping mall
For a quick fix and a neon high.

It's Vegas in your hand,
It's sex and wealth and access,
It's watching the world get undressed
And for a second, you feel it all.

A second,
And it's gone.

Back to the shroud of numb.

Written October 2011. Alaina Perez.

Hopelessly Devoted

I heard the song you
loved the most.

I remembered how
you danced to it
in place.

Flipping your wrists and stepping
on toes with a smile
I don't ever see
now.

Written July 2012. Alaina Perez.

Visual Journals

I look to other people to
find my light again.

It is impossible to peer
within and find anything but
nothing.

They remind me what I love
and I remember everything
I've wanted until

caught up in a worry,
I fade.

Tut tut.

Written June 2012. Alaina Perez.

Mid-Dream

As the fire creaked

He looked at me

And told me

He was leaving

and never coming

back.

Written April 2012. Alaina Perez.