Love Poem: Magdalena
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Written by: Chicano Eddie

Magdalena

“MAGDALENA”

she wakes with strategies to avoid. 
the sounds of her anxiousness to live 
scream loud but she is patient. 
she dresses and puts her glasses on. 
her hair sits gently on each side of 
her face as she rotates the necklace 
I gave her. 
it’s a reminder of another life that 
loves her. 
we’ve kissed very few times in eight 
years but that is what makes each 
one real. 
we’ve been dead away from each other, 
we’ve been alive when we are with each 
other and we are love when we hold 
each other. 
she fills her lungs with smoke 
as I murder my liver with Pacific. 
we didn’t always say goodnight, 
we didn’t always say I love you 
but we meant it every day. 
tonight we look at the same moon 
within the same love and she is mine. 

goodnight my darling, 
I love you.


By: Chicano Eddie
9-4-2016