Aventura Sings Sweet sorrows

by Amanda Lopez

Haven’t you missed me?

I was your obsession till you decided she was.


No es amor, no es my love.

Pero, te quiero te quiero.



Por un segundo I thought you’d come home.


& when you didn’t,

mi corazoncito

couldn’t take the

pain.


You tattooed her name

on your heart and threw mine away.



But Romeo,

Romeo, He sang to me every night I missed you.

Eventually, I understood what I was feeling.




I was brok en. I was being.


“Dime que me amas.

Cuando volveras?

Solo por un beso.”


Eventually, I missed you no longer.

Now, por cada segundo I say,



“Fuck you.”

Amanda Lopez is a writer from Houston, Texas.