Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Amour, amour, amour

L'amour! C'est quoi l'amour???
Je me demande...
Est-ce que l'amour est parti?
Est-ce que l'amour est dans le miroir?
Est-ce que l'amour est perdu?
L'amour! C'est quoi l'amour?
Les petites messages
Les petites mensonges
Le verbiage...
Les yeux fermés
Le silence?
Je me demande pourquoi on devrait le trouver
Est-ce que l'amour est perdu?
Est'ce que l'amour nous a demandé qu'on y aille à la guerre pour le trouver
L'amour! C'est quoi l'amour?
Je reflechis...
J'arrête...
Parce que en écoutant ce que l'amour veut vraiment dire
Je peux finalement le comprendre
L'amour! Je sais!
L'amour est déjà là!

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Breathe, breathe, breathe!

Breathe, breathe, breathe
You can do this! You can do this!
Grandma, Great-grandma I'm calling you
Breathe, breathe, breathe
I'm breakable! I know this now
Come to me and assuage this excruciating pain
Grandma, Great-grandma you are with me
You tell me, "breathe, breathe, breathe"
I can't let the pain control my spirit
I can't let the pain take over my mind
Breathe, breathe, breathe
I'm lying on the ground, but I'm still here
A thousands of thoughts crossing my head
and I just keep telling myself, "breathe, breathe, breathe"
The adrenaline keeps me from screaming out of pain
I'm breakable! I know this now
Needles and more needles
I can't feel them anymore
A long trip ahead
Hours and hours and I'm still here feeling this biting pain
Hours and hours and I must stay strong
Needles and needles
Medicine and medicine, but I'm still in dreadful pain
Thousands of thoughts in my mind
Will I make it on time?
Will I walk along a heavenly beach again?
Will I climb a Hawaiian mountain again?
Will I keep exploring this magical world?
Breathe, breathe, breathe
The pain is so harrowing that for a second I see myself dying
I close my eyes and hear these words, "You can't die. You're eternal."
I'm breakable and I know this now
I could die and I'm grateful for my life
I could die now and I don't regret anything
I could die, but my spirit will never die
Breathe, breathe, breathe
I close my eyes and I feel my body like a ghost
My body wanting to heal itself
What a powerful thought!
I'm perfect! My body is perfect!
Breathe, breathe, breathe
My body is breakable, but my spirit is unconquerable!
Photograph by Engin Akyurt

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Bolivia

Nayax sutimax munta,
qullunakamax, jawiranakamax,
ch’umimax, pampamax.
Nayax wali imantatamax munta.
ch’uxña willjtamax.
wawa phaxsimax.
Waynanakax jumalayku jachapxta,
nayax jumalayku jachata.
Nayax nayrapachamax munta,
ch’axwanakax, amuyunakamax.
Uñt’smawa, uñt’istawa.
Jach’a markajax,
nayax jumar munta.
(Traducción Español)
Amo tu nombre,
tus montañas, tus ríos,
tu selva, tu llano.
Amo demasiado tu verdad,
tu verde amanecer,
tu luna nueva.
Los jóvenes lloran por ti,
Yo lloro por ti.
Amo demasiado tu pasado,
amo tus luchas, amo tus ideas.
Te conozco, me conoces.
Mi gran tierra,
Te amo a ti.
(English Translation)
I love your name,
your mountains, your rivers,
your jungle, your valleys.
I deeply love your truth,
your green dawn,
your new moon.
Youth cry for you,
I cry for you.
I deeply love your past,
I love your struggle, I love your ideas.
I know you, you know me.
My glorious land,
I love YOU.

Thursday, April 12, 2018

Unforgettable

I hear "Unforgettable"
and my heart starts to dance
I dance with you in my mind
I dance with you and I can see your soul
You loved me so much!
I loved you even more than that!
and this is why our story will remain forever unforgettable
You fled...because you knew you would never ever leave me
but I will be "Unforgettable" to you
and here I keep dancing waiting for you
Viens-ici! et embrasse moi!
tu sais que tu m'aimes
tu sais que je te manque énormément!
Viens-ici, parce que moi...j'ai déjà oublié tout le doleur
parce qu'on est "unforgettable"!
Dedicated to Nat King Cole.

Friday, November 3, 2017

Prince Not Charming

Someone who would never get tired of hearing my crazy ideas
Someone who would always be there when I need him
Someone whose tiny car would take us wherever we want
Someone who would be a book lover
Someone who would talk politics, music, and would appreciate my crazy taste in art
Someone who would feel we´re making magic together
While we try to communicate
So much to give, so much to say,
Don’t tell me what ending to write
This is me in the writing
This is me in every single word
I’m not afraid of being who I am
I’m not afraid of saying what I believe in even if that hurts
Because life is like that…you must hear nice and awful stuff
Nothing is like in the old love stories you once have read
Or maybe it is, once you´ve accepted who you are
Someone who won´t get tired of dancing
Someone who won´t give up
Someone who would commit
Not to me, but to his feelings
Someone who won´t deny who he is
Someone who won´t hide his flows, but learn from them
A story I wanna read again and again
A story of two
A story of us
That’s the “prince not charming” I want

Friday, August 12, 2016

Losing My Voice

Woke up and no word could come out
My brain bombarded by thoughts
Good thoughts, bad thoughts, ugly thoughts
Good thoughts like I´m alive
Bad thoughts like I hate feeling this emptiness
Ugly thoughts like I wish I had never fallen into this void
Woke up and no word could come out
Felt helpless and so weak
Felt like nothing
A “nothing” person
A “nothing” woman
A nothing that can´t be loved
A nothing that was tossed when less expected
Woke up and no word could come out
And a “larme” rolled over my face
A “larme” then multiplied into an ocean
A gloomy hurricane of emotions trapped me
Woke up and no word could come out
Not that word that I used to say, “babe”
Not those words that I used to say, “I love you”
Woke up and no word could come out
Just silence and weakness
And then out of nowhere
Here I am with no voice, but with hope
Here I am with no voice, but immensely stronger
Here I am a “nothing” with no voice, but climbing “Everest” little by little
Yes, you are gone, but I´m still here
Yes, I have no voice, but I´m still me
Got my way lost, but I´m finding it back somehow
Woke up and no word could come out
But here I am writing this poem not to you, but to me!
Here I am rediscovering, reinventing, redefining who I am
Here I am with no voice, but with a mighty heart
Losing my voice, losing you…how long can this last?
Not much because this is me who we´re talking about!
A nothing who is something
A nothing who is something without you
Losing my voice, losing you…how hard could it be?
Yes, I loved you! But it is not all about you anymore!
Here I am and I want to sing!
Here I am and I´m ready to rise and show you that you never defined me
Here I am…sorry! Not to show you anything, but to show me the beautiful “nothing” I am
LOSING MY VOICE WON´T LAST FOREVER!

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Disillusionment

A borrowed heart
A borrowed feeling
We danced for a while
Felt my world was turned upside down
Felt I couldn’t feel happier
Disillusionment
Woke one day and everything was gone
Your love, your smile
Your voice stopped making those groovy sounds
Your words stopped being written and sent to my heart
The dance stopped and I wasn’t prepared
A borrowed heart
Are you where you’re supposed to be?
Thought we belonged together
Thought we would dance forever
Thought we would go to Las Vegas and love each other until the end
Disillusionment
Didn’t I get the message right?
I laughed at that!
Because you knew how much I loved you!
You knew it, but the game was on
A borrowed heart
A borrowed feeling
And now you’re all cozy in her arms…
Disillusionment
But I did learn
Learned to never give my heart to the wrong person
Our dance is over
Photos and a ghost remain
Hope I can forget just that easily
Wish I were all cozy in someone else’s arms
Loving and being loved
You forgot everything so quickly
But I’m fine…you just made me stronger!