Eva C.’s Poems
Chicago beauty letters
All lights hug the dark streets of downtown by nine
With colors lying around each other taking people from place to place
Democrats everywhere to stand up for what is right
Grouping together as a harmony in order to gain justice
Knowing what it can look like at any moment in these streets
No one opens Nor peeks to see how this is bad
People move quickly and run
What sick and twisted ruler we have over us
May you vanish away from “Us the people” who have an opposite opinion on your zoo like plan
Can’t you see?
I have been studied for years now since 1550 BCE because people thought I was the issue
But why me? What did I ever do to you? I’m just trying to protect you, but no
You build images in your head and make me play it as a movie for you
You think and think until i get too dizzy making you feel sick and nauseous
You have overwhelmed me until i make you upset or tired
But that was never my job since the beginning
And if i do end up doing that it was never to make you feel upset
It’s to prepare you for what could/can happen, can't you see?
The root cause of your suffering is your own thinking
The initial thought of your dream didn't cause any suffering until you began thinking about the thought
You are who is in control of me
I know you tend to Overthink but you can stop it
Event + Same thinking = Same experience
Event + New thinking = new experience
Thoughts create but Thinking destroys
The only way you can enter this space of miracles is through non-thinking. If you think, you immediately get ejected out of this space and enter a state of anxiety, worry, and suffering
You are ruining yourself, not me. Can’t you see?
Welcome to America
Welcome to America
Where guns are more valuable than your own kids
Where metal speaks louder than the cries of classrooms
Where lockdown drills teach children to hide before they can spell "safety."
Welcome to America
Where you get deported not for the crimes you committed, But for wanting to give your kids a better life you couldn’t have
Where you have to go out and work to put food on the table while having the fear of stepping out
Where you have to look both ways to make sure you don’t become the one chosen today
Welcome to America,
Where the rich are worshipped like gods
Where the middle and low classes are seen as poor homeless
Where the money you need is in the hands of those who dare to give it up
Welcome to America,
Where women and girls are blamed for their own bruises
Where a man's future matters more than a girl's trauma
Where women are blamed for how they dress but men have the right to have an imagination off of it
Welcome to America,
Where being a Democrat makes you a disgrace
Where you are wrong for being right
Where being smart makes you dumb
Where caring for others is “wrong”
Welcome to America,
Where Trump made cruelty a campaign strategy,
Where truth was bartered for applause,
And empathy was branded as weakness.
Where freedom is filtered through skin tone, gender, and tax bracket,
Where justice is promised but rarely delivered.