(Your) lips remain in my mind, and there’s more that I long to see.
Or am I just entangled in the entrancing web of desire?

Your smile is still hypnotic.
I saw all of you, yet I still want more.
Who cares if we just met? We’d be great together! I know so…?

Please, take away my seal.
You, her, someone…
Anyone…?

I may be tied to you by blood
But that does not excuse your behavior.
Maybe spelling it out will make it stick:

If you just won’t understand what we say…
That people want things done a certain way
(Or done at all),
Then maybe the problem is in you after all.

If you’re not going to take
Responsibility for your own mistakes
Yet criticize others when they do
I want nothing to do with you.

People can change. They can be forgiving.
So, I’ll tell you once more:
Why won’t you accept what we’ve been saying?

I’ll be ready to meet you halfway.
Be honest, and remember what you swore
For once, and maybe I’ll tolerate what you say.

My feelings for you are like going to sleep after a horror movie.
I expected this nightmare’s return, but am still surprised by it, reappearing so abruptly.
No matter my efforts, a dream this shall never become.
Stuck in my imagination for eternity, and then some.

No matter how many stanzas
No matter how many pages
I write, I ponder, but my canvas
Does not bring the relief that made me engage.

No matter how many sleepless nights
No matter how many years
It never feels quite… right.
I conclude that I’ll never get to hold you, my dear.

There is no cure
For this torture.

There is a world I’ve yet to explore
Hidden in plain sight, covered by nothing more
Than an opaque veil, disrupting my view.

How must I bring it down?
A soft and subtle approach does not work; it just makes the attempts easier.
Being open and direct about it knocks me back with full force.

Is there a password, a secret path? Or is it simply random?
When will we get to join ourselves?
Open yourself to me, my dear unknown.

You are truly a mystery.
For being similar to me,
You act often so differently…

Just open yourself up and let me in.

Love is ungendered.
This feeling's beauty
Is its universality.
It's the only thought on everyone's mind.

I'm happy to be
Swept away by this world's essence
Its meaning is union
The union of the people and the soul.

❤

We are still only shrubs.
Soon, we will grow into majestic trees.

There will be many a freezing winter,
Tearing us apart with the dark embrace of snow.
There will be many a scorching summer,
Evaporating all but our tears.

But that does not mean we shouldn’t wait for the fruitful spring
Bringing us smiles,
Or the romantic autumn
Where our leaves and memories dance among the skies.

So onward
To a terrifying but beautiful future.

I have no name to write in the sand of my beach.
I need my heart capsized again, shaken even by speech,
Caught in a storm of emotions, leaving me a shipwreck.
I miss your company on this deck.

Love, please return into my sea.
What is my poetry, if it's for nobody?
Is there something wrong with me,
Always trapped in this strange duality?

There is no spice to contrast this uneventful sweetness,
No pain to oppose my happiness.
But just like that, carried by the current, you float away…
I'm stranded. Please, stay…