With An Open Heart

By Michelle (Miki) Rivera

In With An Open Heart, a book of thoughts and poems, I am hoping to transmit my thoughts, hopes, and feelings. Writing is something that keeps my mind occupied. A few years ago, I was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, something that was not easy for me to accept.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lettra Press LLC
• Release date: Sep 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9781645520948

Michelle (Miki) Rivera

I started writing as therapy, as a way to help me cope and fight my condition. With an Open Heart is Michelle Rivera's third book, and the first one in English. The first two are in Spanish, Por Mis Amores y Desamores and Pensamientos eInspiraciones al Amor, both published in 2013. Rivera was born in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, and is now living in Los Angeles.

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With an Open Heart

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Michelle Rivera (Miki)

WITH AN OPEN HEART

This book is written to provide information and motivation to readers. Its purpose is not to render any type of psychological, legal, or professional advice of any kind. The content is the sole opinion and expression of the author, and not necessarily that of the publisher.

Copyright © 2019 by Michelle Rivera (Miki)

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or distributed in any form by any means, including, but not limited to, recording, photocopying, or taking screenshots of parts of the book, without prior written permission from the author or the publisher. Brief quotations for noncommercial purposes, such as book reviews, permitted by Fair Use of the U.S. Copyright Law, are allowed without written permissions, as long as such quotations do not cause damage to the book’s commercial value. For permissions, write to the publisher, whose address is stated below.

Printed in the United States of America.

ISBN 978-1-64552-093-1 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-64552-094-8 (Digital)

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Contents

Many Loves

Want to Be

Mystery Poem

I Don’t Want to Die

Mother

It Is Too Late

What to do? It is too late. Nothing Left

We Are Different

The Sensation

Window Open

Hard Times

Promised

We Should

Trust

Same Routine

All We Have

Someone

Don’t Worry

Song of Love

Into My Mind

Miracles

The Dentist

Free Me

What We Are

Oh, God

Counting Fun

Are We Selfish?

What Is Going On?

Bad Habits

My Wish

This Is Me

Who Is the One?

Blood Drops

Easy Life

About All of You

September 4

Blind

For All of You

The Next World

Lonely

Creative Mind

Miracle Hands

Irreplaceable

Believers

How I Feel

Why?

The Eraser

Lovely

Missing You

I Am Glad

You’re Unique

Let Me Be

Belong to You

Love Tears

Wish

Two in One

Learn

ABC’s

Look Around

Three of Us

Trust Me

Like Yesterday

Without Answer

You Are

After All

Think of Yourself

The Solution

Celine

Silence

The Power

Tears

Is It Worth It to Leave?

I Don’t Want To

You Were the Question

Because of You

Estranger

November 2

Hope

Never Mind

I Will Call You Trash

Today is My Day

You and Me

Looking for You

We Believe

All I Say

A Mistake

Don’t Be Wrong

Can’t Forgive You

My First Love

Four Letters

Dreams

You Are Still Here

Behind You

Thank You

Liar

You Will Not Come

You Are Not Alone

You Are the One

You Are Nothing to Me

Your Decision

New Year

Not Meant to Be

Together

I Will Tell You

Same as You

Won’t Be Afraid

Go On

A Real Friend

Memories

Who Are You?

Far Away

Thinking About You

There Is No Age to Be in Love

Love

So Sad

I Love You

Oh, Mother

Shining Star

Don’t

Sweet Thoughts

Kisses of Wine

Painful Love

Ghost

Nice Day

Perfect

What a Day

I Am a Song

No One

Christmastime

Be Yourself

Sounds of My Heart

Empty

Real or Not Real?

Regrets

Payback

Just Love

I May Die

The Avoidable

What I Said

I Can Do It

Inspired

My Book

Holding Our Tears

Really Hard

My Close Friend

What a Dream

Come On

The Last Page

Day by Day

Nice Place

If You Were Me

You Don’t Know Me

You Are

Think About It

Expressing

Talk About

After

Sleepless

Open Door

My Other Half

Why?

Like a Flower

Fantasy Life

Mexico’s Heart

Thinking Like This

Poison

Like You

I Don’t Know

Wherever You Are

Hard to Avoid

The Way

Is It Magic?

Crazy

Letting You Go

You Are My Reason

Happy for You

Today

My Little Crystal Doll

Come to Me

Three Wishes

Slave

Terrible Night

Love for Money

Show Me the Way

Stupid Heart

I Am Nervous

Same

The Past

After All

Where Are You

Don’t Trust

Believe It

You Are

Unwanted

It Hurts

Without Precaution

Poet of Love

Rain or Tears

Human Dog

Looking for You

All I Am

For the Rest of Your Life

Am I Dreaming?

You and Me

Bad Taste

Who?

Margarita

Many Loves

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There are many kinds of love.

There might be many more

That I don’t know of or I forgot.

The first one is from God.

The second one from your mother,

From the one who gave you birth.

Then, the unconditional love that, when you need it,

Is right there without conditions;

The innocent love, the one that only needs

Hugs and kisses;

And then the dangerous love,

The one with passion, the one with an addiction,

The irresistible one that never thinks,

The one that knows when you are weak

And makes you fall,

The one that makes you believe

In things that don’t exist.

And the last one:

The love you can’t explain,

But it is real. It’s in your heart,

Inside your head; it lives in your mind.

It is willing to live or die just for you.

Love: What a beautiful word love is.

Want to Be

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I want to be everything for you.

I want to be you.

I want to be your best friend;

I want to be your lover.

I want to be yours all day.

I want to be your dog

And get your shoes

When you come home.

I want to be your cat.

If you are exhausted,

I will softly rub your back.

I want to be your bed

Where you lie down every night.

I want to be the dreams

You have every night.

I want to be your mirror,

So you can see your reflection in my eyes.

I want to be in your life,

Called by name your wife,

And live forever at your side.

Mystery Poem

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I am writing a poem,

But I don’t know what about:

Maybe about a friend or a lover.

Maybe about a family or a flower.

Maybe of fear, or a book.

Maybe about me

Or something about you.

Could it be about my singing bird,

Or something from my dog or the world?

Maybe about this life, or just about the stars,

Or about another planet or the moon and the sky.

Or just about my lost cat.

Since this poem is still a mystery,

I will just call it a mystery poem.

I Don’t Want to Die

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This life is so sweet, like a pie.

This life is splendorous, like the sun.

This life is so bright, like a star.

I don’t want to die.

This life is incredible.

This life is so important.

This life is like a beautiful dream.

I don’t want to die.

This life is interesting.

There is a lot to learn.