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Under Another Sun

Floating over this salty skin

My mind wonders in waves, crashing against the shore

Contemplating if life could ever be as it was before

 

As these tears soak

The skin you kissed,

Its taste the sensation

You said you had always missed

 

But now the gain of our greeting

Is lost in sad goodbyes

 

Until under another sun

We will learn to run

Arm in arm again

 

Until under another moon

We will learn to heal the hearts

That broke too soon

 

Until under another sky

We will learn much more

Than just the simple touch of rain

 

We will lift up life’s sorrows,

To no longer drown in its pain

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Goodnight Is Not Goodbye

Goodnight my dearest one, goodnight!

We return to the place where dreams lie

But for now, it’s not goodbye

 

Not until the stars

That burn within your eyes

Begin to fade

And the tongue that speaks

Soft words of love

Suddenly has nothing to say

 

No, not until my arms

So full of life begin to weigh down

With the burden of Death

Carrying its reeking smell

Heavy upon me

Like an albatross around my neck

 

Nay, lover

You are to me as beautiful

As a small bird, frail and injured

In the palm of my hand;

 

I am there to protect,

You are there to understand

Life’s nature

Goes on insufferably

Until the day we die

 

But until that moment is upon us

Let us say goodnight

And not goodbye…

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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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There You’ll Find Me

Spots of sunshine

Fly over the page

The sun still shines

When there’s nothing to say

 

In the place where

Silence reigns supreme

I will still be with you

In the fragments of a dream

 

Swimming in shadows,

Sheltered by waves of peace

There you’ll find me

Scattered like autumn leaves

 

Under a tree in the shade

(Your eyes squinting to see

At what lies beneath)

Rolled out like parchment

 

My shapeless form stretches out, waiting

To be mapped by your hands

And coloured blue

In a sea of love that waits to kiss the land

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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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The Morning Sorrows

Pain like a sunrise

Greets me every morning

I wake without you

By my side

 

Your smell still locked

Into the warmth of the bed

Anchors me to its depths

Drowning

 

The kisses of yesterday

Like bruised fruit

Bittersweet upon my neck

That once lingered now start to fade

 

As the morning sorrows

Sweetening song

Contained in the mouth of a bird

Ascends and falls unheard;

 

Didn’t you know that Man’s deadest hour

Is when Nature is most alive?

 

The Red morning sky

Reveals the shepherd’s warning:

Think more with your heart

And less with the mind

Else lovers fall away; stray and blind

 

 

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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.