And More
amanda urenda
I’m too ruby too perfect
too full, too plump, it oozes from my pores
and makes a puddle at my two feet
my legs too short
your hands too slow to catch it
yet I’m too forgiving, granted
it’s because I'm too messy but
you’re too you and I'm too me which is why
I get too silent when you’re
too excited when I say ring me out.
Because I'm too juicy and too morbid
and I wanna be
too dry and too flaky so that I can go too limp
when I'm too sad because I’m too present.
I’m here but I'm there too.
There’s enough me for two, which is too much
or at least that’s what I was made to think.
So when I say 3 2 and you start too early
I don’t take it too much to heart.
Now I'm too lifeless like you thought I wanted.
Since I thought I was too much with too little
and its true for most but not too true

Author Bio
Amanda Urenda is a student at UTEP, obtaining her bachelors degree in Women and Gender Studies. She received 1st place in poetry for the UTEP Creative Writing Awards 2025, her collection to be published in the Rio Grande Review.



