Bren

Photo: Taken by Brenda Nieves   I look into the space and find myself jumping into memories. It feels like a dance I’ve danced before... ...a song I’ve heard before...  ...a love I’ve felt before.  Such a crazy time to be alive. 10 months ago we were thanking god that we were here and now we dread the start of a new day. A day that is almost prison like with a routine that chips away at what was once our happiness.  I can’t say, “where life has taken us” because the truth is this IS NOT LIFE. This isn’t a decision made by our own free will. This is the road left with no choice. Where this illness has taken us is dark. I’m cold and have forgotten what your warmth feels like. What you taste like. What you smell like. What you sound like. Things don’t seem right.  Soon enough everything will feel like a dream, as if what happened was just my imagination running wild, where this sickness decided to just grab me by my heart rip it to shreds and say, “time to be exile...

by: Brenda Lee Nieves Just like the night takes over the sky and the stars dance with the moon. The love I have travels through my body and finds it’s way to you. It tips toes on your soft lips and slides down your tongue. It grabs a hold of your heart and notices it’s half full. Then it jumps out through your hands that touch my thighs. just. right. not too low and not too high. As my legs shake it enters my body through our conversation that needs no words. It grabs a hold of my heart and throws it into my eyes. As you kiss me and open yours, our hearts join into one. The world is less cold. With. Each. Thrust. I feel closer to you. Your arms around me holding me tight. I can hear a rhythm in your breath. A rhythm I want to hear... over and over. It’s not the feeling of your physical body that entices me. It’s the love we have that only you and I can see. Even through this distance, you are the only person who holds my heart.

by: Brenda Nieves When I compare us to the rest of the universe I realize that we are so tiny, but your actions have made such an impact. This moment spent with you fills me with euphoria. I would be content with reliving this day loving you in every single way. I look at you sleeping and all I want is to be stuck in this moment laying next to you. When you speak time freezes and the only person I can hear clearly is you. Your words dance into my ears and seep into my bloodstream they flow into my heart and fill me with love. You were right time is irrelevant, but I do wish we had an early start. It's hard to leave a place knowing you're leaving behind half of your heart. I look at you talking and all I want is to be stuck in this very moment completely focused on you. When our skin touches I no longer feel afraid. I get lost within you. It's almost like the bed sheets create an unpenetrable force field and remove us from the world and you just driv...

(photo taken by: Ayaris Perez)                                                        **An attempt at using iambic pentameter. This was done two years ago** By : Brenda Nieves Looking into your eyes and seeing your love It’s tantalizing! You promised to be nothing but true, see when love is tested a man must prevail. Oh, Lovers far away the lies become truth. What can I see here? Blinded by a veil. I find the messages Your lust has taken her and love has failed.