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I Swim.
Our Door.
This Is The Last Time Pt. 1
Heavily breathing, his bed carries the weight of my body, effortlessly, as always. The side of my thigh digs into his lime green bed sheets.
His room hasn’t changed at all. The light of his bedside lamp lights the right side of his apartment as the remaining of its light pours slowly into the other half. The glass of his Polo Blue captures the light on its edges as it sits on his old beat up 6-drawer dresser on the left-hand side of the apartment. None of the drawers are aligned anymore. Hate that thing.
After adjusting myself for the sixth time, I finally decide that I should remove my jeans as I wait. I quickly unbutton the top button and unzip. I feel my hot breathe crash against my chest as I look down at my legs, ripping my jeans off of them. My heart still races. I kick off the remainder of my jeans and toe kick it off the edge of his bed.
I hear the thump the cheap lighter in my back pocket makes has it hits the wooden floors. I should have smoked more.
It’s been 3 years since we broke up.
That day never leaves my head. Best decision I’ve made thus far with my life. What a pig! A disgrace of a man he is.
I remember the gaze his eyes would have when the light of his phone would bounce off them as he stared into that screen with his brightness so annoyingly high, as I would lay next to him on this same bed.
“Just Justin’s stupid ass texting me about the game.” He would say after my lips would release the common “what ya looking at, babe?”
Angelica Rodriguez was the first one. Nice girl. Had no idea who I was. I was more saddened for her than myself when the truth finally came out. He chose me. I can hear the New-York-Rican explode out of her mother’s mouth, “I told your stupid ass that Dominican men are pigs and are good for nothing. He don’t even give a shit about his own madre, que lo parió!” At least, that’s how I imagined it went down.
Gosh, I hate these socks! I need to do my laundry. I skin my feet of them and toss them to the corner of the room.
He’s a charming motherfucker. That’s why I stayed. Them stupid dimples didn’t help either. Gosh, I hated that smile. Colgate-teeth-having, bastard.
“You know, you still love me, ma.” He would smirk as he spoke those words. I did. Son of a bitch had me tied up. I was his puppet. He was my puppeteer.
Now, Jasmine De Los Santos was a tramp! She knew about me and still fucked him. With her, he smiled a lot more at his phone and never got off it.
He still chose me.
Jasmine had a fit. She was the crazy type. Came banging at his door. “You know her pussy ain’t mine! You’ll come running back!” Her voice would echo the entire 3rd-floor hallway of 596 East. But that was nothing new for Fordham.
Pride. That’s why I stayed after this one. I felt good when he chose me. Something about him smiling at his phone so much when she’d text him irked me. Maybe it was the fact that, that cheesy ass smile was being smiled for someone else. I don’t know, but it felt good him choosing me over her.
I couldn’t control my breathing. This was now a weekly thing but still, every time felt like the first. The excitement of breaking into his studio and the nerves that covered every inch of my body imagining how he would react when he walked through that heavy metal door.
Fuck, look at all those dishes. I can tell it’s been days since water has touched those plates. Mind you, he only has about three of them. He must be ordering in. He wasn’t a bad cook. He was just lazy as fuck.
I straighten my shirt but not enough to cover my belly button. I pull my panties up from the back to expose more of the side of my cheek as I straighten one leg out. I release my hair from its bun…
Gosh! I almost forgot to untie my hair. He hates my hair tied up. He loves loose hair.
I feel my curls caress my cheeks.
Suddenly, I hear the elevator slam down onto this floor. I hear his loud steps in the hallway. Walks like he weighs 250 pounds.
I adjust quickly. I grab the v-neck collar of my shirt and pull down on it hard. Cleavage is a man’s weakness.
I hear the scratching of his key on the doorknob.
You’re so fucking stupid! I think to myself.
I grab his only pillow on his queen size bed and tuck it slightly under me and wrap my arms around it. I’m trying to be cute.
The lock on his door turns and I hear its loud click as it unlocks. I see the bronze doorknob turn. He pushes hard on the door for it to open.
That door was always too heavy.
It swings open.
“Fucking, Nicole.” He smirks.
My breathing almost stops.
(To be cont’d)
A Moment.
Her.
I laid in her arms. She held me tight with her right arm laid against on my chest and her left, pulling on my earlobe which sent chills running down my back as it laid up against her hips with her legs wrapped around my hips with just the right amount of pressure that made me feel safe.
As her drumming heart serenaded me, I tilted my head up to look again, at the those big brown eyes that stared down at me as her dark hair fell off the right side of her face. She smiled. My heart stopped. Goosebumps filled every inch of my body, as the sensation of wings fluttered around in my stomach producing the heat that my body was in search for. Her heart beat for the both of us.
Alive; I felt alive again.
I stared up at her, admiring every inch of that beautiful face. Her small adorable nose that flared up so wide when she’d make faces at me, sat above her perfectly shaped pink lips that she’d torture daily with the pressure of her finger when she overly hydrates them. The spark in her eyes reassured me of the reality of that moment as those eyes sat below those semi thick eyebrows she’s so proud of. How can this not be a dream? How can something so perfect truly exist and not be but a fantasy?
I wink at her and she winks with both eyes back at me. That blink confirms it all. I rest my head back down and remember that we’re still lying on the grass next to the Hudson by the bike path on Riverside of the upper part of Manhattan.
I was home and my heart knew it.
forty five percent
Lips clenched tight as the glass leaves my lips.
I savor the fiery oak on my palate before I swallow.
I allow the flames that once helped fill the bottle of a Buffalo Trace,
Fall down my throat as a waterfall does.
It crashes down into the deep depth of my soul.
Eyes closed shut, head slightly tilted back,
I release my lips from the pressure that held them shut
And slowly exhale my very existence into the air
The spirit manifests itself in me.
“At last!”
My soul settles in satisfaction as the only source
of its warmth begins to kick in.
I draw up my cigar and my soul leaps in joy as it
awaits its second course.
Rivers.
How magnificent are rivers? A constant flow that does not stop, no matter what is picked up on the way. It’ll face its obstacles; it’ll be smashed on, tossed around, caused to splash itself everywhere. Its obstacles will create a mess of it and paint the picture of how much of a mess they are and how destructive they can be. But amazingly still, it’ll continue to flow full of life. Its obstacles did nothing less than portray its power and beauty. There’s nothing like it. We can admire a pond for it too is a body of water, but a pond has no flow. It remains still, unmoved, going nowhere and coming from nowhere. It just sits and accepts its current state. It allows itself to get dirty with the tree trunks that may fall into it, the creatures that creep into it, the dirt that slides into them after rainfalls. Just like the river, they have the same obstacles too. But, they remain still in that state. What purpose does it hold or meaning does it live by, when all it does is holds what comes to it?
You see, a river is flowing from somewhere life-giving, it is how it holds life. It moves because of where it came from. It goes, still attached to the life-giving place it came from. It does not separate itself from it. It is from there its purpose came from; its meaning is rooted there. A river is not just water, it’s a constant flow of water that experiences along the way, getting smashed on, getting thrown around, and getting dirty, however, these things do not bring it to a stop. Its journey purifies and strengthens it. A river does not lose its essence and its purpose to flow because of how the natural world treats it; it actually amplifies it. It does not become less but more. The river’s journey is to only expand that which it came from. Life.
So I sit here and I ask myself, how long will I tell myself that I am only water and not the river? How many creatures will I allow to creep into my life and allow it to stay there? For how long will I let the heavy trunks that are thrown on me by this world sit in my life and only add weight? For how long will I allow this world to toss me around and splash me everywhere and have me to believe that I am a mess that has lost too much of himself to this world that caused me to believe I can no longer move? For how long will I settle for being a pond before I realize that I am the river that streams out of the Life-giving essence with the sole purpose to expand that Life and share it along the way without allowing the world to detour me from that truth? When will I see how life-giving water is when it flows?
"...while the Hudson, to no surprise, continues to remain still."
“So he got up...”
I’m stuck. I hate it. I’m losing control of who I am; the "me", I worked so hard on. Doubt, clouds my judgment. It robs me of my sleep. It swipes my comfort right from under me, causing me to slip. It’s a bucket of oil tipped over and spilled all over the floor I stand on. Impossible to find balance on. Doubt: the pond of sinking sand that caught me by surprise. Covered so beautifully with a false pavement that illustrated the strength of the actual concrete pavement that accepted my many steps of before, that held me up for this long on this path of life. A step into the bliss, expecting something new, expecting something I’ve been waiting for. Every step, as the last. Walking forward. I sink. The path of life is a foggy oneway street, never clear on what’s ahead but always pointing forward. So I have two options, either stop or keep walking. Every step is a risk but never a wrong one. I can never step backward, so what lies ahead is meant for me. Even the surprise ponds of quicksand. I’m sinking. The path is getting foggier. Clarity is becoming foreign. Almost a new language I’ve never heard before. Forgetting what it’s like, the peace it brings, and the strength it provides. I’m stuck. Fog is heavier than ever now. My comfort waits for me at the edge of this which holds me down from getting up. Waiting to see what’s my next move, waiting for me to reach out and grab it and called it mine once more. But my hands are stuck to my side in the sand, not being able to pull them out. What a grasp? Only my head knows freedom as it sticks out above of the tight grip of Doubt. Experience paints a picture of my past and illustrates a familiar image but it’s blurred. All I understand is “Your freedom...” The rest I cannot interpret. I begin to jerk my body with panic. My comfort, that still awaits my survival, whispers gently in my ear: “it is your mind that is under attack. A battle that you will not win with your arms swinging out in front of you nor with the use of your legs to walk away. The more you attempt to fight this way, the faster you sink.” I relax. The familiar image is no longer a blur: “Your freedom lies in your mind”, it reads. The fog remains thick and heavy. As it always was. Never changed. It was my sight that changed, all along.
Most battles we fight in life are never won because we’re fighting the wrong battles. I’m losing my battle because I’m not fighting the one I’m meant to fight. I’ve convinced myself that Doubt, an outside source, is the opponent I needed to overcome. And with every punch I swung and every kick I threw, I missed. My actual opponent is far greater and stronger. An opponent, I’ve lost many battles to. Never able to get up from them. Always being knocked in even further into the ground. Each time, my opponent stands above me and watches me as I lay flat on the ground weak, it screams and yells at me. Never seeing it for what it is, I’ll look up at it and scream back, “the hell with you Doubt!” No wonder I never got up, doubt was never the opponent, it was Trust. Today, as I stare at the familiar image that reads so clearly, “Your freedom lies in your mind” and with my comfort that has anticipated my resurrection, runs towards me with arms wide open to receive me again, saying “For this son of mine was lost and is found.” I, now hear clearly the screaming voice of my opponent saying, “I am not your opponent! I never was! Never will be! I am your partner! And always will be!”
Moments.
Moments. What are they? They are the present. They are the now. They are all we have. The past is not lived in the moment nor is the future, for they do not exist; only what you have matters in the moment. Only what you are, matters. Not what you were, not what you will be. You ARE in the moment, you ARE the moment. Everything else is a figment of your imagination. Everything else does not matter in that moment.
But here I sit, at this moment, in this moment only thinking of what I once was and what I will be. Was and will, both terms used to describe the unreal, the nonexistent. Both words, used daily in my thought process. Fiction is all I know. Is I’ve ever known. So much time spent on just but a fiction.
Moments are meant to be lived. Only that which holds life can be lived. Moments have life. Life is a moment. What came before the moment is dead. What comes after that moment has not been produced yet. They do not hold life. So they cannot be lived. And here I am, trying to find life in them. No wonder I feel so “just existent”. I am what I was and what I will be, but never have I ever been, I am.
Can I Live?
To exist, what a tragedy? Wanting more but never having it. Never getting it. Deserving more but never receiving it. Moving without a motive. Going, with no where to go. Existing. What a tragedy?
To breathe, what a blessing? The feeling of my chest expanding, what an experience? The pulse of my heart hitting against my chest, what a feeling? To experience, feel and be blessed, what joy? All signs of Life. But what is it when you feel, when you experience, and when you are blessed but are not alive? Tragedy.
Life is obviously in my possession but somehow I’ve managed to convince myself that I’m still in search for it. Blindness, what a tragedy?
Tragic, best describes my current state.
To live, what a goal? Doing so, how ambitious? Can I? Who’s stopping me? Will I? I’m stopping me.
To be alive, what a life?
Empty.
Empty. That’s what I feel most of the time. Music flows out of my speakers, my bourbon sways in my glass cup and my lips grip the end of my Dominican imported cigar as I sit on my unstable beach chair in the still air of the summer night on my roof. I look out to the Hudson and to the sky right above it and I try to make sense of it all. Of my life. All experiences being accounted for and there are many. And yet, emptiness is all I feel. I’m almost dared to say: it’s all I am. How did I get here?At what point did I lose sight of what is true or at what point did I see what is true and became discouraged to live? The thought, that almost every young person in this age has gone through this stage or is going through this stage of emptiness, comforts me. However, still I wonder, how do I overcome the stage fright and just make the best of it? I desire more aggressive experience, I desire adventure, I desire LOVE amongst all. And I know, that that is the answer to my emptiness, but fear paralyzes me. Holds me strong to the ground I wish to fly off of. When I even try to come to think of the capabilities love illustrates of my life, I see vulnerability, I see myself outgrowing my family, I see freedom of the norms; I see happiness in the peace. Is it ironic that the one true desire I have illustrates all that I am afraid of?
I take a sip of my bourbon, a nice long pull of my cigar, lean all the way back into my chair as it creaks until my back is fully submerged into it and continue to allow Maaike Ouboter to serenade me with her voice, while the Hudson, to no surprise, continues to remain still.