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Julian Revà Feb 2018
Sometimes I wish I had
the raging verse and the naked word
to summarize what is going on
with people, with my mind, with the world

Sometimes I wish I had
the confidence to trust someone else
to let him or her read my letters
and try to figure out all this mess

I don't plead for mercy
nor cleanance for this mess
I don't plead for reason
I just want to have the raging verse

I don't plead for silence
nor pent claps inside halls
I don't plead for voices
I just want more ears to hear me more

I disown the rules of poetry
And recognize only a single language
                                    around the world
That sings about love, beauty
suffering, power,
history and more

I hear it and I hope you hear it too
I try to sing along | I hope you try it too

Because I don't want to be alone
Singing among a crowd in a pent hall
Quiet, deaf and silent

Yes, sometimes I wish I had
the raging verse and the naked word
to make people rage and denude their souls
Julian Revà Feb 2018
I am the one, cornered in a corner,
                                   melancholic
I am the one who is not invited
He who dances alone
Julian Revà Feb 2018
Cry
I do not know the reason why I'm crying
But I've been told that it may be because of you
I have flatly denied such words and comments
Since I would not cry for someone who does not cry for me
Julian Revà Feb 2018
Suffering lips, broken by the grief
of not feeling once again, the taste of my lips
(Spanish Translation)

Labios sufridos, que se quiebran por el pesar
De no sentir una vez más, el sabor de los míos.
Julian Revà Feb 2018
I try to disdain any relevant fact that, for more irrelevance than you give it, it will still doing too much harm. I try to avoid the obvious, respect the impropriety. I try to let you go as I known you long before, avoiding becoming you another part of me. I will keep trying, even if I daily fail. Although I get fed up by your company, even if you do not even try to stay here with me. I will not bind you, I will not force you; because I love you, I will let you go.

Will you come back? I do not know, that will not depend on me anymore.
Julian Revà Feb 2018
Do not falter before midnight
Because absolutely I need you,
               warm and close
Because I need from your open empire
Do not falter before midnight

Refrain from any aversion or madness
Don't touch yourself
even to comb your hair
Stay unique, curious and pure
Please, do not give up

Because I feel abandoned and forgotten
I need from the light of your cave
that shelters me from the cold
I only ask for protection and warmth

Because I wander in this cold winter
all alone as a lost lover far from home
Please, do not falter before midnight
before I could get to you tonight

It would be unfit if I find you broken
and with all your gates covered
Or worse; occupied or blocked
Because then I would die from cold

So take my strenghts and will to go on
And please do not give up
Do not falter before midnight
because I need you more than ever
in this cold winter were I am lost
Do not falter before midnight
Julian Revà Feb 2018
Dampness. Silence.
White loneliness.
I am legends.
Extinct flames.
Warriors' Ecstasy.
Victories and chants.
Mythical and demiurgic.
The time in a second.
The last. The murmur.
What they do not say.
I am the secret.
The wind in your hair.
What you have never had.
The fallen trees. The devastation.
Persian, Greek and ancient.
I am the path.
Of Jesus Christ and Zarathustra.
The Prophet and the Buddha.
I am the limbo.
Between the dunes and the tundra.
I am the Gladiator's grave.
The laurel of the Caesar.
The betrayal of the emperor.
The cry of Arc. The arrow of the Great.

The poem.

The song of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
I am Apollo and Gilgamesh.
The inquisition and the crusades.
Blessed and crucified.
Forbidden and buried.
I am the word made verb.
And the woman and the man in a single verse.
I am the inaccurate time, without measure or count.
Regressive; Memories; Oblivion.
Plural and whole.
Wishing and making others crave.
I am the only one left.
The last respite. The last breath.
I am all that remains.
After the universe ends
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