By River Ordóñez
I’ll devastate your tongue
Tongue-twister, mouth eater
Let me claim your lips
Take my hand in yours
Those church bells can’t hold us back anymore
Look into my eyes not the cross on my neck
God would cry if he heard what I’d said
I would drink his tears nonetheless
Tell your mother to speak her prays
While I take her daughter out to the fair
You quiet my heart
Pounding-aches, squirming legs
We’ll always just be girls you said
So I sat all alone near the setting sun
While you sought to find a god in the rough bell chimes
River Ordonez is a student at LaGuardia majoring in Psychology. They write poetry focusing on topics like mental health, queer stories, and political ideologies. Art in all of its forms is what they love and they often find themselves incorporating multiple art forms into their work. They plan on incorporating these interests into their major and possible career in the future.
