blood

citlaly penelope

Blood doesn’t coarse through my body

It oozes out of me and fills people's cup


I drain myself empty 

For others to see through me

I overfill until my love spills over

But no one seems to notice

My heart lives for others

All I crave

All I desire

Is for someone to spill over me

Let the waters carry me home

To the one who wants me all

Citlaly Penelope (she/her) is a first-generation Mexican-American writer who talks loud and wears her heart on her sleeve. Ever since she was young, creativity ran in her veins, and she usedthat magic to grow wings and soar through different creative outlets. She’s a chingona Latinawho fights for the voiceless and for lost stories to be heard. You can find her being lost in her head and eating a bag of spicy chips.

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