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The Hospital Room

Time ticks;

A fragile and volatile bomb

You count the seconds pass

And wonder where they’ve gone

Meanwhile the distant and burning

Stars of outer space

Explode

Into particles of golden dust

Giving human life their trace

Stretched over a vast landscape

Of cells and membranes

The pain of birth contained you

Curled up in utero

But you broke forth too soon

Pale and premature

Watched by the expectant eyes

Of the hospital room

A small and tangled up

Bloodied ball of flesh

Craved the comfort

of womb and breast

Covering with baby hands

Its own eyes from the light

Sleep-full and yearning

To fight for its life

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Origin of the World

I imagined you

At the origin of the world

Watching and waiting with weary eyes

For your world to be changed

 

Boy of bloodied birth no longer

But man of womb and flesh revealed,

Did you cry and crumble

At the spot where Nature’s love was sealed?

 

As you gaze upon your own

Bloodiness, father of the child that you were

Picturing a new innocence

As Life seeps out in a blur…

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Rayos de Amor

Eres el sol

Que brilla en mi ventana

Con tus rayos tan fuertes

Calientas mi alma

 

Soy la sombra profunda

Que te sigue

Te espero con calma

Cuando me pides

 

Tu pecho es la fruta

Que me da la energía de amar

Tu fuerza interna

Me ayuda a respirar

 

Como una madre que cuida a sus hijos

Me has acogido bajo tus alas

Esperando el día

En que puedan volar

 

Y aún en la tormenta

Sé que mi fe en ti aumenta

Mientras te tengo por dentro

En el oscuro silencio

 

Donde el amor no se encuentra muy lejos

Pero seguro en el fondo de mi corazón

El sitio donde las palabras se esconden

Nos encontraremos de nuevo:

 

Vivas y con el verano

Brillando desde tu cara

 

ENGLISH:

 

‘Rays of Love’

 

You are the sun

That shines through my window

With your rays so strong

You warm my soul

 

I am the deep shadow

That follows you

I wait for you patiently

For whenever you need me

 

Your bosom is the fruit

That gives me the energy to love

Your inner strength

Helps me to breathe

 

Like a mother who cares for her children

You have taken me under your wings

Waiting for the day

That they can fly

 

And even in the storm

I know my faith in you increases

While I hold you within

The dark silence

 

Where love is not found far

But safe in the bottom of my heart

The place where words are hidden

We will meet again:

 

Alive and with the summer

Shining from your face

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The Day of the Rose

In memory of Saint George

 

 

And she came to stay

On that fine Saint George’s day

For her, this mighty dragon lies slain

And from its spilt blood

Flowers a rose upon the grain

 

Shattered into pieces, scatter

Every inch of the beast

Jagged tokens of my love, my heart

Upon which you may feast

 

And grow the more splendorous

Budding into bloom

Telling the story of a lover’s beauty

That was to be sacrificed too soon

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Spanish Waves

There you are:

Sitting, uncurled

As Curiosity feeds

Your wide brown-eyed gaze

Did I un-ruffle you?

I got lost in your maze…

 

Those were the days:

Watching your Spanish waves

Unfurl upon the broad

Of your shoulders

A beach of dappled skin

Stretched out before me;

Sun-kissed with freckles

By the sun’s bright rays

And my own tender-meaning lips

 

Softer still, and still unravelling

My love for you like a lock of your hair

Wrapped around your finger twirling

Unties and unbinds itself from ‘truth’

Instead I tied myself to you…

 

My body: the work of your interpretation

Translating truth into fiction

And back again

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Falling Too Soon

Red lights like warning signs

Give way

To the unholy passage

Of my mind

 

Remembering how

I tried to make you mine

As the blood orange moon

Climbed in time with your swoon

And you sank into slumber

 

Into the depths of my heart

That plunder

Now I cry: awaken, awaken

Lusty eyelids

And drown asunder!

 

The frost begins to creep

In at the blinds

As you fell, soft and pliable

Into my hands

 

A shooting star

Falling to the bed of the Earth

 

Come, come into my arms

Out of harm’s way

Awaken, awaken

And you shall see day.

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Night Life

Did you ever see

The stars shine so bright

Blinding out

The great mystery

Of even the darkest night?

 

Its perpetual darkness

Within which we discover

The truths of ourselves;

The truths of each other

 

When we with hollow

And impenetrable faces

Forget the depth

Hidden behind those gazes

 

That Look through

Into the mirrors of  minds

Reflecting back and forth;

Lost memories in time

 

Endless and eternal

Just as the stars of the sky;

Scars of fire that light up and

Pierce the night

We were once you and I

 

As distant and as bright,

Staring simultaneously

Towards a future and a past;

Light years suspending

A life that was meant to last…

 

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Ode to the Sun

1

Sun,

Shining in your most reverent sky

Now I know why

Men have come to adore you

 

2

As you start rising

Lovers lay sighing

Feeling your warmth

Between their sheets

 

3

The treachery of morning

That follows the night

Fades away once you’re in sight

And the world becomes new again

 

4

Basking in your splendorous rays

Is where I want to be

To catch even a glimpse of you

Is satisfaction guaranteed

 

5

To see you light up a prairie

Where barley glistens gold

I could watch you all day long;

It never gets old…

 

6

All I want is to turn as dark

As the dust of the Earth;

Reverse original sin

Return to original birth

 

7

Colour me cocoa

As brown as the bean

Turn my face away

From white supremacy

 

8

Shine your light on me

And illumine my mind

Keep me within safe reach;

Protect me from the night

 

9

Fill me with the joy

Of the labourers’ song;

Under your supervision

They work all day long

 

10

Share your particles of gaiety

And you will see

This wondrous world

Looks not as bad as it seems!

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Betrayal

Betrayal

An imminent cloud of smoke

Rising from a fire on a hill:

Distant enough to arouse suspicion

Close enough to make ill-will its mission

 

And yet we are foolish

Enough to listen

As the embers crackle and die

Not perceiving

That very same fire

Still burning in our eyes

 

As we turn to others

To give them the murderous kiss

We have received

The black shadow of Death

Marks a stain as it leaves

 

Not once. Not twice,

Nor even thrice.

Betrayal is imminent,

An ordinary part of life

 

Where men turn their crosses

Upside down;

No longer a symbol of love

But a symbol of hate

“INRI, what became of your

Righteous crown?”

 

“Hidden, hidden away

Behind sorry veils

By those that believed

Their transgressions

Had brought them beyond the pale”

Cried He.

 

But even now

The bitter taste of betrayal

Like a soured wine

Fulfilled a prophecy

That would stand the test of time.