Talvez Sabras

If you saw the waves we've
been sailing lately, how the
ship keeps getting beaten
and bruised, so bad,
we almost lose it
but we don't throw ourselves
over board, no, not yet,
even though we know
we won't see a haven any time soon.

if you could hear the recent growls
of the wind, how it breaks
its way through our windows,
like a hungry lion, shaking all
our possessions, how scary it
gets at night..

if you could feel how
hard the rain has been falling
on our skin, more like splints
of glass than water..leaving
us hurt, bloody.

talvez sabras,
why her tears feel like
gunshots in my lungs, how they
knock the air out of me-

why the absence of the sun
is the only thing I look forward to,
only to drift into sleep, and not
know of anything..

If I were to tell you,
chapter by chapter, perhaps
you'd praise me, perhaps you'd
pity me, perhaps you'd love me.

...Talvez sabras

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"Talvez sabras"
translates to "maybe you'd know"
in spanish.