POETRY: It Doesn't Matter by Olga Cantu

Olga Cantu was born in Monterey, Mexico. She pursued her bachelors degree in Computer Systems Management and masters degree in Education and Agricultural Administration at the El Tecnológico de Monterey, Mexico. 

She moved to Houston, Texas in 2003. Olga became a state certified teacher for Hispanic children in Houston, Texas, where she still teaches.

In her spare time, Olga writes beautiful poetry. It's hard enough to write poetry in English if English is your native language. To write poetry in your second language is even more difficult.

Olga has graciously agreed to share one of her poems with us. 

It Doesn't Matter

It doesn’t matter

if I am not in your agenda

for the holidays,

neither for the weekends.

It doesn’t matter

if we are not together

maybe not even the whole world

could sustain this Love.

It doesn’t matter

if your preference 

goes in different direction

than my expression.

It doesn’t matter

if giving you my name

is not for you something to celebrate

It doesn’t matter.

It doesn’t matter

if you don’t belong to me,

any way

I find you often in my dreams.

It doesn’t matter

if you don’t want my lips to go

all over your skin.

It doesn’t matter

you don’t know, you are the reason

I chase a poem

all the way to the holy altar

where I give up

not my love but my hope.

It doesn’t matter

if usually, you do not reply.

Peace from above

to my heart has come.

                   - Olga Cantu

                           October, 2014