Breana Estrada

Overflow Breana Estrada 2nd edition

overflow.
"This is my overflow. Every feeling so flooding that the excess needed an external home. A place to weep. To rejoice. To admit temporary defeat. To battle cry. These ink-stained pages have been washed with waves of emotion so powerful, even the greatest of swimmers would be swept away with the current."

the fight.
"I wage wars in my head every day and my body will show you the scar tissue tombstones from every enemy thought that my battlefield is as real as they are; my proof of survival."

slow burn.
"This is a 'let's start slow and build
up to the blazing flesh' kind of poem. This is
a 'heatwave though my body' poem."

the end.
"This is how the world ends. If suddenly you did not exist, the earth would crumble beneath my feet into a million jagged pieces."

run.
"Run from the secrets
from the truth
from the past

Run.

You don't want
these things
catching up to you."