FREE VERSE Poem, by Taylor Palomares

I want a love like
flames that don’t die.
It’s rich embers crackle
while they watch the sunset.

An ideal date would start at the
Broad Museum, where Notorious
B.I.G. took his last breath;
Because he would know how much
90’s rap is my thing, how
Tupac and Biggie are
“My top two artists of all time”
How Ice Cube makes it my top three
He would remember how much
I admire Biggie’s vernacular &
Tupac’s poetic voice

It doesn’t take much to make me happy.
Flowers for no special occasion,
not just a way of saying
“Sorry, I fell asleep last night”
“Sorry, totally went over my head”
How does one just forget
about a person’s existence?

Walking home I took a deep nosedive into
The sidewalk pavement. My already bruised,
Wounded legs continued to walk 1.7 miles home
With the non-existent response on repeat
No music necessary.

As previously said,
It doesn’t take much
to make me happy. Maybe
I’ve allowed that type of
Treatment I despise…
Would always say,
“I would never allow”
At what point do you just
Stop
and
let
go?
?Maybe, it’s simply because
what has happened to me,
the way I’ve been treated by
people in my past¿
Even by the ones who have
no other choice but to love you.
They always find a way to
make me feel incapable of
giving nor receiving a genuine
exchange of emotions.
I want a love that could
not be contained
That seeps through the tiny
Cracks and Crevices belonging
to the doors that enclose
my heart’s walls.
I don’t just want,
but I deserve a love;
We all deserve a love
that doesn’t need to
explain itself, nor be guided.
Like some sort of
Love for Dummies.

Someone that remembers how
many sugar packets you prefer
when asked. That never has
to give you a sad, simple
“I’m sorry” that they
don’t even mean. One
that awaits the day they
get to give you that, gitty,
butterfly feeling. Like someone
knocking on your heart’s door.

My friend asked me what I wanted,
What I looked for in-
love? My response was a genuine
love. A type of
love that awakens me
from this fog, we call
life. To fill my gray summer days.
I want a love that never feels
cold. Warmed by the flames
that cease
to die.