TATIANA RAUDALES - POEMS

Tatiana Raudales has been writing creatively for the better part of over ten years, while writing professionally for the last four. Her educational background includes an ongoing pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree in English, paired with many writing workshop courses. She has previously published a short story in the Scarlet Leaf Review back in the November 2016 issue.  She has worked effortlessly to grow and reshape her writing since.

​Akiana

​The baby that never was
Who I hope will smile down
Upon my new baby
But I know it can’t be
For you only existed
As our dream.

She Yanked Away 
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​She Yanked Away
The little doll clasped between my fingers
She didn’t mind tearing off skin this way
And shrugged off the sadness that lingers
 
She stole every sense
Of freedom, identity, self autonomy
And threw my doll into cold, dark vents
Leaving me in search of my dolly
 
She pushed all of it onto me
Her insecurities, anxieties, and godly fear
But she didn’t plan on giving me
Any sense of boundaries to adhere
 
She screamed and I coiled
Back into the vents, holding my doll
Safety, and hopes guarded
 

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The Man Who Haunts Me
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​I approach him in tears, dragging my feet
The chains scraped against the concrete
The cold concrete riddled with broken glass
But his face is content
 
He is no longer a bird perched on a branch
He sits in the body I once saw
But I cannot see his entire body
For I have only seen him in photos
 
He opens his mouth to speak but
His voice is too quiet for me to hear
Have I forgotten it after all these years?
I look closer and even his face is blurred
 
The man who haunts me walks free
At peace with all that occurred
Yet I, the one who stirred the pot
Cannot stop having these heartbreaking dreams.