A small collection of poems

BY: A.M. TORRES

Mirrors in my mind

Won’t let me forget,

Prisoner inside

Filled with much regret.

Mirrors in my mind

Hostile with their words,

Wounding me inside

Emotions now have stirred.

Will it ever stop?

Images please blur,

Mirrors that reflect

The pain that has occurred.

Mirrors in my mind

Heartlessly confined,

They can’t understand

The guilt that has been mine.

Cruelly locked within

Staring through these bars,

Everything I love

Now just very far.

Eyes fixed left and right

How will I sleep on?

Watching me, making rules

How my nights are long.

Hiding in my room

Scared to even think,

Eyes all cast on me

I can’t even blink.

Eyes now cast on me

Scrutinizing all,

Knowing what I do;

Backed against the wall.

Eyes that look my way

How long will they stare?

Watching me, talking much

Some may even glare.

Dear Diary

Dear Diary,

What do you sense?

What have you read?

Am I intense?

Here day to day

Where things hardly change

Ready to write

And it’s all the same.

Dear Diary

My faithful good book,

Where secrets are kept

And nobody looks.

When loneliness hits

I grab my good pen

To share all my thoughts;

My book you’re my friend.

Dear Diary

What can I say?

When life doesn’t change,

You never complain

With you I can cry

For you’d never judge

And if I can laugh

You won’t hold a grudge.