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Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Si me muero
Sunday, 20 November 2022
Shameful nights
I am afraid. Like hell.
Desperate for love, I
am.
Sweating anxiously at
these crypts with dancing corpses
Stopping myself from
jumping from woman to woman
Renting a love for a
night and bygones. But is it love?
It is not.
Why? Not sure, not
gone yet. Belief keeps me from returning to a lesser self
Whom I despise. Loathe
and shame. Shameful story.
In your eyes too, my
friends, I see myself.
You too are bound to
this relationship of disgust
A dark hole that is
sinking us, and we cannot escape.
Where is the light in
this forsaken night? Neon, astral, electric.
But not warmth, not
caring, not selfless.
I am sick and tired.
Not lost. Very far.
Tonight, I meet my
frustrations.
Farewell.
Saturday, 19 November 2022
Blissful moments
Would you hold my hand while you drive?
Let your fingers meet
mine, your warmth is ours
We don’t speak but we
share this care
Are you lonely? Here.
I wish I could stay
here forever.
Holding you at bed
with our messy hair signalling it’s morning
Our smiles melted in
bliss, our years of divisive moments
Wrinkles of our pasts never shared nor forgotten
Who am I with you? Are
we human? Perhaps.
This could be the most
human we are
Right here and now, intoxicated
by neurochemistry
But I know now, better
than ever – such a moment will dissipate
And it will mix as a
drop in the vast motionless ocean
Forever gone and ever
shared
We swallow our
bittersweet end.
Good game
Una mujer, una niña por dentro
Vive un
mundo egoísta y desalineado pero finge clemencia
Por sí
misma yo creo, por si acaso al menos
Me buscas
y me dices que me quieres en verdad
Como el
amigo único que tienes
Que fuimos
por tanto tiempo
Y algo ha
cambiado en mi mente que busco ser honesto
Me
susurran alivios de realdad que te quiero y no es igual
Si te
quiero, me entero de mi propia distancia. De la criatura que me volví
Que ahora
te observa y te absorbe en destellos de lujuria e intimidad
Es un amor
simple. Un amor incipiente. Un amor no reconocido
No me
amas; lo entendí cuando me olvidaste
No hay
problema, es una vida de ilusiones y expectativas irreales
Pero yo
caí una vez más por primera vez en años
Gratitud
por la melancolía – por eso no te olvidaré
Y en eso,
egoísta he sido y seré aunque intenté pensar en tu perspectiva durante todo el
proceso
Por eso me
agradezco el intentar, sin trampas, sin jugadas nocturnas y embarazosas
Nos doy
ese respeto y me dono una oportunidad para mejorar
Te dejo al
viento, mujer. Esas brisas que borran todo.
Un beso, mi ligera.
Noches
En qué sonrisas nos perdemos cuando bebemos
Unas sinceras
pero traicioneras
Labios
rellenos de lujuria y perdición
Abundan
las tristezas en la noche
Ya las
revestimos y adornamos con colores, con diamantes y luces
Escondidas
entre aromas y hormonas que fluyen con desdén
Me rehúso
a pensar, me niego a ver y escuchar
Solo vengo
a reír, a bailar, a coger, a drogar.
Y te veo
entre las demás, y me envuelvo en tus caderas empujando ese vestido negro
Apostando
a mi consciencia que puedo llevarte a mi cama
Bueno –
estas noches son de oportunidad y del placer de la incertidumbre
Me enamora
más la curiosidad que tus senos desnudos contra mi piel
Y el
aliento mezclado entre alcoholes y sexo
Tu cabello
mojado en sudor pegado a mi cara, escoltando mis hombros
Y tus
dientes y tus uñas y tus piernas tratando de arrancarme la piel
Este es el
desborde de mis días veinteañeros que resultan impermeables al futuro
Seguimos
cayendo en una danza nocturna
Tropezando
por dentro, revolviendo una tormenta de angustias cubiertas
Que me ven
desde adentro y me giran, me abusan
Pero las
alimento con hedonismo, dejándome llevar para callarlas.
Monday, 18 April 2022
Rain
I want to write. I need to write. I have not written in a while. That’s not entirely true. I write all the time. I write for work. I write on social media. I write in my head. But I have not written here. Tapping my fingers on the keyboard and making sounds of release. Letting my words happen as they did many years before. Here it is. Now, I am signaling to myself how alive I could be if I just let this rain pour over me and onto the keyboard, one key at a time. Without a point. With a reason. Many reasons. There they are hidden in the noodle. I do not seek them, but I know where they sit watching like a cat.
Sobering thoughts: we all die. Not news, but I keep surprising myself when I come to the same conclusion every few weeks. And I do get scared. I fear not being, just like family and friends of the past have ceased to be. They are misty memory that gets diluted with the years. Confused memories collide and are inconsistent among those who remember. At some point, many of them will dissipate. Especially those alive before social media. Then again, the internet could collapse in hundreds of years and kill everyone forever. There is that. A second death. We die once when the heart sleeps. We die again when our existence is forgotten. Someone smart thought about that. I don’t recall who it was, but I think it’s true. And many folks out there seek immortality throughout their time alive.
By the way, less than one hundred years to be alive. That is terrible. But then again, I am thirty now and it feels like life has gone on forever. I have lived a life worth living already. But I want to keep pushing and grinding, sometimes just to continue and not to stay still like stale water. Old water hosts disease and stinks. Not what Bruce Lee meant when he urged “Be like water, my friend”. Yet I stay still most of the time. And I enjoy it. Looking at the walls and watching people walk. Listening to the sounds of the city and my own breath.
This is meditation.
I learned it a few years ago and it brings ease to anxious and restless minds. It kind of helps me. Or I think it helps. Or I convince myself it helps. Even if it does not help and I lie to myself, it helps. I am thinking about sharing this text, but most of my words are stored or lost without someone to read them. I use this as my catharsis, albeit a slow and unexciting one at best. Why write, then? To keep a vault of words. To hoard messages. To remember. To let go and forget.
I should go.
The airplane just arrived, and I should hop on or be left in another strange city. That is a story for another time. The words stop here, and I enjoyed being back. I will continue writing on the plane. Writing for myself. Writing in my head. Goodbye.
Thursday, 2 September 2021
Tasteless mirrors
We like to believe that we stand at the top of the food chain; that we dictate the route for the world and call for order to counteract the chaos of our environment.
Yet, it is only that, a belief.
My fellow men, we are but ants. What power do we have against falling from a tall building or a rocky mountain? How do we survive in the depths of the sea or the emptiness of space? Can we spend more than a couple of weeks without drinking water? We can thank evolution for our industrious and curious minds. We have engineered our way through our problems.
And still, we are born to eventually die. We live within the fabric of our society, for each of us serves a purpose.
Yes, we will die. But our progress will keep on existing.
We will continue to survive and thrive, no matter what since our consciousness makes it impossible for humans to quit trying regardless of the odds against us. There will always be a will to survive.