I was not a human,
And you were not a man.
When you took me to hell with you,
I became the cursed, and you, the demon.
Your eyes of flame and ash,
Tore through me as a lash;
And scorched my soul into remnants,
To be coldly discarded as trash.
Your evils became mine,
And my world became thine,
As I begged to God for justice,
You then emerged from the abyss,
Into the sunshine…
On angels’ wings.
K. Aldaya, 7/31/21
Picture: By Matthew Ball on Unsplash; https://unsplash.com/photos/dSoR8sLMSIE
We’ll never belong anywhere,
‘Cause we were not let in.
The world forgot that we were here,
And left us all alone.
We’ll never get to live or age,
‘Cause time passed long ago.
The world turns another page,
And we’re nothing but a tale…
Another ancient story,
To be told, and then forgot.
For the world says we are history,
And only we know, we are not.
K. Aldaya, 02/25/20
Picture: By Danny G on Unsplash; https://unsplash.com/photos/l2NRQNkQ2Qk
In the fields of youth I wandered alone,
Through the veil of night, in search of home;
And though time passes forgetting today,
I’ve still found no place to stay.
Fall comes again, yet never left;
And the ghosts’ whispers leave me bereft.
I am still alive, though dead.
Tell me: Where is the past to rest it’s head?
I walk among the falling leaves.
Every tree cries out and grieves,
For what is gone may ne’er return,
And what is known we can’t unlearn.
In the fields of youth I wander alone,
Through the veil of night, in search of home.
Time left me and will ne’er reappear.
Now I’m a ghost, yet I am still here…
Eternally haunting the present;
And no one notices that I’m absent.
So I wander alone looking for home.
I am a child, though my body is grown.
Time keeps on moving forgetting today.
Yesterday’s gone, and there’s no place to stay.
K. Aldaya, 10/6/19
Picture: By: Daiga Ellaby on Unsplash; https://unsplash.com/photos/HwZQGB-ZjG4
You try to meet me half-way,
But I’m not there. I’m all the way.
Too far away. Who would go?
You can’t reach me.
You can not know.
You try to meet me half-way,
But I’m not there. I’m all the way.
Time rode away so long ago.
The sun, it set,
Then came the snow.
You try to meet me half-way,
But I’m not there. I’m all the way.
Gone. Frozen in time…afar.
I can not move,
To where you are.
You try to meet me half-way,
But I’m not there. I’m all the way.
Too far away. Who would go,
To where I am?
With other places to go?
Life stops for no one, so I hope you know.
I don’t want you to stay.
I want you to go.
K. Aldaya, 5/31/19
Picture: By: James Hammond on Unsplash; https://unsplash.com/photos/alflch2BrgM
I didn’t recognize you. I didn’t want to know,
The secrets and the truths held,
Deep within your eyes…and although,
I see you near to me. I’m afraid to glance your way.
For how can one save the lost;
Trapped in a time far away?
I can not speak of the horror; Only of the screams.
I hear them slip through your lips,
And besiege me in my dreams.
I’m sorry I left you there; In that place, all alone…
Where the clock’s forever stuck,
At quarter-past “never-known”.
–I stand atop a dark stairway. I see you below,
And as your eyes look my way,
I spy a looming shadow;
And as the shadow passes o’er, our eyes, they fin’lly meet.
I know I can not save you,
So once again I retreat.–
I didn’t recognize, ’cause I didn’t want to know,
That the girl in the mirror,
Had the same bleak eyes which show…
The anguish of a child betrayed. A child left behind…
Deserted and forsaken,
In the corners of my mind.
K. Aldaya, 4/27/18
Picture: Vintage image used in the book “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs; https://www.pinterest.com/pin/330522060122327068/
My Soul is a Lock Without a Key 