Sin Fronteras Spring 2018 Sin Fronteras 2018 | Page 24

Vanished
Teresa Lee
There was something enigmatic
About you.
The way that people treated you
As if they were happy to see you.
They admired your presence,
But you could see the fear in their eyes,
A hint of disdain,
Barely noticeable underneath
Their stained smiles
And enthusiastic words.
People loved you,
They all wanted something
From you that I didn’t understand.
I also don’t understand what
Could possibly have motivated me to
Breathe you in.
That instant hit me like a train
Going 300 miles per hour.
My palms tingled,
And my stomach churned.
I absorbed your every word,
And I held them in my hands,
Fingers squeezing tight around them.
But no matter how hard I grasped them
And dug my fingernails into their flesh,
They vanished as soon as they
Escaped your mouth.
I felt like a child chasing after soap bubbles.
It was pointless,
Dumb,
And I knew that there was nothing good in it for me.
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