Poem, Sunday Muse # 122, Guatemala

 Art by helldivo at DeviantArt

I'm Watching My Friend;
  in my mind

But my eye is on Guatemala today
Guatemala is where I want to go
Look closely you can see it on my face

It's not a secret most anyone can tell
There in Guatemala I left my friend
Friend so dear--she can't come here I must go
 
A coyote I must pay border to breach
Pay with dollars hard earned some donated
Her lovely self and I we meet again

Together we must stay and part we must not
Spousal citizen I'll become for you
Guatemala in my eye ever more 

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At Antigua,  Guatemala,  this is our mission group from Texas with our guides.

This poem is Fiction, it is not me except for the added bottom picture, I am on the left, front.

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 - More Guatemala photos on my blog, click here. 
 - Poem Copyright, 2020 Jimmiehov, All Rights Reserved
 - Photo prompt found where I'm linked to Carrie Van Horn at Sunday Muse # 122, http://thesundaymuse.blogspot.com/2020/08/sunday-muse-122.html?m=1

Poem -- Acrostic

S W A L L O W   S C R E A M S; 
  f o r   D I N N E R  

"Swallow", word I hated to hear
Word meant for me to drink
Always evening dinner they would come
Liquid so thick my tonsils would stick
Laying there oozy back of my throat
Lolloping stuck like a drunken truck
Waiting but that Swallow coming not

Screams in the night dreams keep me awake
Cry out I could not no one to hear
Remembering song they wished to hear
Each note sticking to a brain cell
Again and again, over over
My sobs holding back as if I dare
Silenced by my fear though not afraid

for at the brink at night I dared not
only noise I made tears hitting the floor
red with blood from twisted bleeding ears

Dying my wish, that comes other day  
Instead it's 'Swallow some more' 'til then  
Nobody cares get rid of the junk
Next day no matter same o' same o' *
Each day I live to Swallow better
Remarkably I never do puke

A few South American Critters:
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[from an excursion on our 'Around South America' cruise]

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 - Poem Copyright, Jimmiehov 2020, All Rights Reserved
  - I'm linked with Magaly Guerrero at Weekly Scribblings # 33, https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2020/08/weekly-scribblings-33-swallow-screams.html?m=1
 - Magaly wants us to include the words, "Swallow screams for dinner" in our work.
 * https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/same+o+%27+same+o+%27