Tag: Family
A New Song
maybe I’m wrong
maybe I’m right
whatever the fuck
I will never lose my sight
I will never lose my voice
though I’ve been silenced by the night
I will never give up the fight
not by power
not by might
but by the the brilliance of the light
some trust in silver
some trust in gold
some trust only in themselves
many hearts have long grown cold
but I only know one thing
maybe I’m wrong
maybe I’m right
I only sing one song
it’s what my heart longs
to never lose my sight
to never lose my voice
in this crowded world
so many are blind
so many unkind
so many keen on being mean
so many spewing out filth
so many spitting out hatred and lies
and this voice
and this heart
only longs to write this world a love poem
to pen the lyrics to a most beautiful love song
I wanna teach the world a new harmony
I wanna tell the world a new fairy tale
where happily ever after is always now and never after
EVA SANTIAGO © 2018-2024
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2018: SAVOR the Moment
Happy 2018!!
Thank you to all my faithful readers who still follow this blog 🙂
What a roller coaster of a year 2017 was. I’m looking forward to things slowing down a bit so that I can savor the moment!
I’m also studying a lot and my writing is on an upward growth curve. I’m back so don’t think that I’ve abandoned this blog that I started back in the summer of 2011. My oh my, how time flies when we’re having fun!
Eva Santiago COPYRIGHT 2018
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
A WORLD OBSCENE
A world obscene
Is this what they get from us?
Where wrong is right
And right is wrong
Ever since the lines got blurred
And our cosmic speech became slurred
A world obscene
Is that what we’re leaving them?
Can we fix it?
Do we dare try?
Do we even want to?
Or are we too busy passing the collection plate
Hoping against hope
Religion wins their precious souls
We must step up!
Own what we’ve done
Let’s begin by admitting we didn’t care
As much as we were supposed to
Let’s create for them a new scene
I beg of you
Let’s not leave them a world undone
Let’s not leave them a world obscene.
EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2015
What’s in a Name?
What’s in a name?
Your character
Your personality
Your quirks
Your demons
Your warrior angel
Your frustrations
Your hidden intentions
Your truth
Your lies
Some change their birth names, ending chapters to stormy pasts
Some out grow their birth names
Still, some take on new appellations in search of new identities
Our names, name our past, present and future
Our names make, or break us
Our names are not etched in stone
But some can be found in Heaven’s book of Life!
Eva Santiago©2015-2024
Love Requires Relationship
How love dies:
When selfishness stabs it repeatedly
When betrayal bares ugly baby twins: Fear and Doubt
When truth is incessantly violated by a violent violator
Lies kill love quicker than Jaws devoured the flesh of a hundred victims
Crooked hearts fuck up tender hearts
Everything must die for anything to matter
And thus, lost love is found
Better to have been found than to stay perpetually lost
Independence kills love;
Love dies at the hand of lovers committing a million acts of independence
Love requires relationship:
To deny love of such, is to put your lover’s soul into an eternal state of spiritual anorexia
Love dies from careless lies whispered in the dark
Love dies when you unravel its mystery…
EVA SANTIAGO COPYRIGHT 2015
STRANGE CREATURES
We are such strange creatures!
We have to leave, to miss, and to be missed
We need space ,to feel closer to our loved ones
We have to give, to receive
We have to die, to live
We have to have known loss, so we can appreciate abundance
We have to have known darkness, so we can shine brightly through our being
We have to have been lost, to know the warm feeling of being found
We have to have tasted great hatred, so we can become great lovers
We have to have been buried, so we can sprout back up
We have to have been cut deeply and wide open, for blood to gush out, ushering in true healing
We have to have been cut, in order to be sutured
We have to have seen chaos, to appreciate harmony
We have to have heard cacophony, so we can hear beautiful sounds….
EVA SANTIAGO©2015-2024
Us Parents, We’re Weird Like That
We hope our kids are growing
Then get sad when they do
Us parents, we’re weird like that
We hope they grow more independent
And when they take off on their own
We cry
We hope they need us less and less
Once they do, we wring our hands and pace the floor with worry
We hope our kids leave the nest
And once they do,
We’re devastated
We hope they find true love
And once they do,
We hope they won’t have too many heart breaks
We hope our kids grow up to be amazing people
And once they do
We hope they don’t forget us
Ahhh yes, parental complexity knows no bounds!
EVA SANTIAGO copyright 2015
Eva Santiago 