rambles, poems, braindroppings, and stories

  there is a house out there in the mountains, just wait. trouble in the night air, just wait. a party awaits you, just wait. where does the road go? just wait. an old wise man said, just wait. angry lies, just wait. confess-confess, just wait. there-there over there, just wait. the music flows, just wait. was it all a dream? just wait. cold and bitter the winter winds do not forgive, just wait. work, wait. sleep, wait. eat, wait. dream, wait. fun, wait. dance away, wait. laugh and laugh. wait, and then wait. waiting and waiting, because i can, wait, forever, if you give me a kiss

  My family is in my heart and soul. No matter what I do, always I am welcomed home. Sometimes I tell them that I hate them, but this is a lie because I love them more than anyone else in the world. We fight almost every holiday, but in the end we all eat dinner and clean up the mess together. Every morning we share black coffee and we fight over who can use the one usable bathroom. This has been a strange year to say the least. My younger brother was studying in the city, I was living and working in Piura, and my parents were at home. Then the COVID- 19 happened. For over six months we have all been gathered back to our home. Like birds going back to their nest. I have been working online. Teaching English to Chinese and Peruvian students. Reading books, exercising, and working. This is life now. I keep asking myself, “when will things get back to normal”? Truth be told, things are looking up. The world continues to go around the sun. Pancakes are still delicious and friends are f...