I am human…
which means I have made mistakes,
that I am not proud of.
I am willing to put a bandage over it
for it to heal.
I know we can’t just forget what has happened
but we sure can fill the empty space between us.

To all the people I have hurt emotionally but mainly to my parents, Rosario and Andres Mendez, my siblings, Jorge, Natalia, Leonardo Mendez, my cousins, and friends. And to my OTA classmates, Sofia Carrillo, Maddy Lewis, Melissa Heraldez, Carly Shaffer and Zoe Sidiropoulos

I am sometimes the sun on weekday mornings
I am sometimes the thunder on a scary night
I am sometimes the the breaking news on t.v.
I am sometimes the history not yet discovered
I am sometimes the shoulder you cry on
I am sometimes the knife that stabbed you in the back
I am sometimes the apple on the teacher’s desk
I am sometimes the feet that are dragged to the principal’s office
I am sometimes the bright green leaf at the park
I am sometimes the branches at an old graveyard
I am sometimes the waves waving ‘hello’
I am sometimes the storm saying to ‘go’
I am sometimes the four-leaf clover that brings you a smile
I am sometimes the black cat that makes you scream
I am sometimes the part the completes your heart
I am sometimes the tear that drips from your eye
I am sometimes the fruit that makes your tongue dance
I am sometimes the pepper that burns your lips
I have sinned but that doesn’t make me a devil
Nor an angeI, it just makes me human!