Yesika Salgado

“mi corazón, cielito lindo, tesoro mío, mi amor, mi vida, mi alma. — how beautiful it is to be loved in Spanish.”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón

“you love someone for a long time
so long you don’t remember not loving them
so long the years accordion into each other
and within the folds, all the times you didn’t get it right so you let them go
they come back
(or you call them back)
you swear it’ll be different
but it isn’t
you still love them
each failure hurts
you think, maybe you can be friends
but that too is a sharp pain
you don’t want them in your life
you don’t want to live without them
another year goes by this way
turning hope into your only bread and water
maybe you’ll figure it out
maybe someone new
will make you both
forget
maybe the world will end
and set you free”
― Yesika Salgado, Corazón