Lissette Quiñones
Arts & Entertainment Editor
Throat’s dry, burning with desire to speak of what I keep hidden
Most nights, I drown in the fire but at least it’s a free riddance
Leopards never shed their stripes, nor do tigers
The more you struggle, the brighter the fire
Fueling me is so simple. I could transform into a rainbow
Movement wherever the wind goes, a grand storm when pain grows
I can dance for you and shake my body, with your eyes glued to my waist
With the chance to make this a hobby, I escape your sight to a dry place
Somewhere dreams can make a papered girl crumble to ashes
Become the air and bleed amongst the layers of the world: a jungle of matches
Nothing but animals like myself preying upon innocence and feeding
A light dusting of candles don’t help to slay the filaments if I start heating
Burning the path, burning with wrath, never learning from the past
Hurting those who asked me not to, hurting because of my craft
My words aren’t real so its sustenance is a ruse
It’s a dry burn you’ll feel from the covenant you abuse
Pay with integrity and I retreat to my lair of coal and twigs
A place where you can’t breathe in the air from how cold it is
The walls are made of stone and the ground is lit like fireworks
Crawling within your bones, you drown with me, die, or worse
Show me your true colors and I’ll reciprocate with my fingers crossed
Do to you what you do unto others; making you break and burn our bridges off
Cut all cords aligning me to you and you to I
All the more reason to seal away my truth, for I choose to lie
The freaks come out at night so let me roam with the wildebeests
In the sheets, I choose to lie because it’s home to me, where I’d kill to be
Leopards or tigers; guess we’ve seen them before once or twice
The better the lying, the higher you fly, like lighting a new blunt at night
Sensation is new but that makes it all the more enticing
Waiting patiently is all it takes, for the temperature’s rising
Sooner or later realization will knock you down and quench your thirst
And you too will savor a forbidden craving, befriending a curse
I consider it a gift to keep me satisfied with my inner truth
Should you wish to be aligned at night, I’d gladly show you a thing or two
Because no one should have to conquer a new presence all alone
Like I was and am doing at home, burning darker in the deep end of my corazon
But that’s what motivated my motives and made me a martyr
As you’d hold my waist, you didn’t notice the flames growing darker
With a chance to see what’s left, coverage ripped right off my skin
It’s not as if you’ve slept so here’s another chance to get loss in tonight's sin
Lay right beside me and let’s intertwine with each others normality
Stay through the night with such kindle light and sleep peacefully of who we’re proud to be
The fire will make you sink because you can’t swim, so sleep with me
I’m a liar, so I made you think I loved you when in the end, it was your sweetest dream.
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