Lilly Jean Bautista- Three Poems

Roller Coaster

 

At the age of 16, or perhaps even 25,

Nobody is worth suffering for.

Move on and leave those

Who left you

Behind.

Get lost

And find yourself.

Only you are in control

Of the speed

And direction your

Roller coaster travels.

Whether it goes

Fast or slow,

Up or Down,

Loop de loop,

You decide.

Mêlée

 

They fire words at each other,

Resembling the bullets shot in combat

And the injuries of each pellet.

I yell for them to cease their fire

But the sound of gunshots

Overpower the sound

Of what's left of my lone voice

And my bare emotions.

I cry.

I scream.

I beg.

When will you put the gun down?

When will you stop fighting?

Masquerade Run[a]way

In public, she puts on the best mask she can find in her drawer.
Frowning, crying, laughing; she chooses the one smiling.
She glides across the red carpet and everyone sees she is happy.
But they are blind to the dark sadness behind her bright smiles,
The loneliness behind her kindness,
The damage she wears
Behind the mask,
Staging a lifetime masquerade.
And one day, she runs away.
But nobody notices;
Nobody stops her.
Who would
Want to stop
One’s smile?
She runs,
Forgetting to remove her mask,
People still see she is happy.
She runs,
Leaving a trail
Of tears
And people still see tears of joy
For she is happy.
But one day, she’ll have enough.
And she’ll be gone
With her mask still on.

Bio: Lilly Jean Bautista lives on an island called Saipan, which is barely even a dot on the map but she dreams of exploring the world one day, jumping from one dot to another. Lilly Jean constantly writes from a stream of consciousness. And she also sucks at writing bios.