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Cristina del Canto Poetry Collection

I have rebuilt myself, like a burned down cathedral
keeping my stained glass windows
as a memory of who I once was

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Cristina del Canto Poetry Collection

  • Poetry
    • Remember Me?
    • Yellow
    • Caracas
    • Man of Jell-O
    • All these things traveling through me still don't bring me to you
    • Way of Sorrows
    • Banned
    • Forever Cathedral
    • 3,2,1,0
    • Morning Routine
    • Hugo Chávez Still Lives
    • Venezuela
    • I Could Have Really Forgotten You If We Had Never Met
    • Green Trails Days
    • Rafflesia Arnoldii
    • Lou's Blues
    • Snowmen in Windsor Park
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Venezuela

Her tears are not human
they’re made of oil,

she runs and she runs –
like a car, borderline empty
knowing one day soon
she will run
dry

Venezuela

Her tears are not human
they’re made of oil,

she runs and she runs –
like a car, borderline empty
knowing one day soon
she will run
dry

Forever Cathedral
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about 10 years ago

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