Excerpt From: Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Essays — First Series.”
Hold Your Head Up!
No matter what
Hold your head up
If the wind took your hat
Hold your head up
If the rain drowned out your daisies
Hold your head up
If the moon fell out of your sky and all is pitch black
Hold your head up
If the trees fall upon the dwelling you fought so hard to obtain
Hold your head up
If someone won’t let go your Eggo
Hold your head up
If they smeared your name with bullshit lies
Hold your head up
If you gave away your dignity ’cause you didn’t know any better
Hold your head up
No matter what
Hold your head up!
Eva Santiago © 2016-2024
The Ripple Effect
Our words and actions cause a ripple effect
For good or bad
We affect people, situations, life, the future
Be the effect life requires of you.
Impact your sphere of influence in such an effective way, that your descendants will wish they had lived to know you.
Eva Santiago ©2016
You are beautiful
Brilliant
Light
Life
Love
Energy
Everything right in this twisted ,upside down world
You are rain
Sunshine on a stormy day
Yet, you’re also the storm when needed
Don’t shy away from being the force behind the storm
You are wind
You are fire
You are earth
You are water so carry refreshment to all who are yours
You are truth
Be that and only that
Live, breathe your truth
No one
Nothing
No power
No darkness can ever diminish, subtract,
distract , detract from the truth that you are…
…Beautiful
Brilliant
Light
Everything right in this twisted, upside down world.
Eva Santiago
© 2016
Just another day
Just another girl
Just another world
Just another breath
Just another death
Just another life
Being his last wife
Just another sigh
After having heard
His very last lie
Just another mile
She rides next to him
Wearing a thin smile
She’d been long in denial
Just another trip to
goddamnowhereville
In his white ’80’s
Coup deville
Just another guy
Trying too hard to be her hero
She don’t need superman
Just a friend-a great fuck in the sheets
The kind a girl never recovers from
Pretend hero exits
Now what?
Over it
Over him
Over her
So over this shit life=
WTF a lot !
People are people
Are people
Are people
Are very damned
PEOPLE-Y
Synthetic folks
Plastic souls
Metallic hearts
Bound together
With chains and
Leather straps
-Eva Santiago
© 2016
I’m over this
I’m over that
I’m over it
I’m over this shit
I’m over that bullshit
I’m so over it all…
…To be over something feels so much better than to be beside it,
in it or under it!
-Eva Santiago
©2016
OUR YESTERDAYS
Our yesterdays become today’s poetry
What mis-guided steps we took in earlier days
Become the compass to guide or mis-guide us through life’s tempests in later years
Our flood of tears that overwhelmed us as babes
Water and keep fertile our heart’s soil in our golden years
Our early attempts at art:
Our stick figures we clumsily drew and our finger paintings
Become the force behind master strokes
On the masterpiece we paint of our whole life
The notes we failed to carry when we were tone deaf
Become the notes angelic beings carry to and fro
Up and down Jacob’s ladder
Aligning the celestial harmonies
Between our heavenly residence and our earthly abode
The multitude of our unanswered questions
We asked while at our parent’s knees
Become our song’s lyrics
The stuff of our novels , stories and poems
We are greater than the sum of earth’s square footage
We are greater than the power of all rulers, past and present combined
Our greatness emanates from the Divine!
Eva Santiago copyright 2016
Eva Santiago 