Cassidy Paredes

Cassidy Paredes

Bio: Cassidy Paredes recently graduated from Liberty University with a BS in English and Writing. While in college, her passion and love for writing inspired her to publish her two books, Picture Perfect and Even This Will Fade, on Amazon. She is excited to start the next stage of her career with NYCTastemakers and continue growing as a writer and editor.
Poems from Cassidy Paredes

BITTER ICE AND ANGRY FIRE

“Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.”– “Fire and Ice”by Robert Frost Ice consumes …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

WHEN DAY BREAKS

Change is happening before my eyes. IWalk through the orchard in the dead of night.Peacefully I see stars and sky to find A place where I can shine like stars so bright.The stars spell out words I’ve been trying to hear,Like life will turn around, and life’s all right. I’ve …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

MY GUIDE

There is a trying war inside my headIt’s drifting to my soul, my head, my heart—Consuming me, tearing on every thread,And ripping all my deepest thoughts apart. I’ve tried. The battle’s getting harder though,With lost outcomes, making the things I sayLook blurred against how I really feel soI’ve lost which …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

Home No More

The house is empty—nothing left.Desolation fills the halls.Everything left unkempt. These walls were once a home beforeAll the tables fell.Now all that is left is darkness, fingerprints no more. From the depths of my soulThe air is suffocating mePiercing my heart, freezing my bones. Desolation clings to the walls, like …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

DEAD MAN WALKING

There’s a dead man walking in my mind.He reminds me of all my faults all the time.He tells me I’m not good enough to do all I wish,Like my dreams are more than I could ever accomplish. The dead man shows me all I wish to ignore:The things that set …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

ILL

I sat alone on that plush couch that I always hated—so fancy yet so uncomfortable. So very uncomfortable. You don’t understand me. No, I don’t think you do. I sat alone on this empty couch waiting—just waiting. I wouldn’t be here otherwise. When my name was called, I sprung up …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

MY MASK

You’ve never seen the worst of her,The worst parts, the mess that she is,The broken pieces that don’t fit anywhere else but here, on this page.I guess you don’t deserve that torture, or maybe you do—The kind of torture where someone bears their whole soul to you.That awful torture where …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

THE LONELY ROAD

I walk along the road,Paved with regrets of past mistakes.The road grows heavy with sticks and stones.It gets harder to trek every time I wake—Wake from this terrible dream, becoming a reality,The burdens towering high on my back.The road is lonely, cold, and dark.It’s the motivation to push through that …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

THOSE STARS

The stars shone bright, brighter than those diamond eyes of yours . . .I might like the stars better because the stars won’t look at me the way you do. I don’t like that look, not always. The shrug, the tilted, forced smile, and the warm eyes.Those eyes! How I …

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Poems from Cassidy Paredes

THE NATURE OF LOVE

Love is the best and the worst,The most predictable and unpredictable,The greatest feeling and yet the most disappointing,The limitless and limiting,The most reliable and still uncertain,The thing I want but am so afraid of. But beyond all that, you are the strongest and weakest with it.And I’m afraid of the …

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