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  Jul 2016 Alvaro
Jack Jenkins
You told me you
              Couldn't find your way
                                     In your darkest nights
So I left you a star
               A star in every poem
                               To find your way home
//On her//
Thank you all for loving this poem so much! It's such an honor to have a daily poem.
I wrote this for a special someone in my life.
  Jul 2016 Alvaro
Savannah Charlish
I let you become my world
I called you home
And when you left
I didn't know where to go

So I ran to the streets of France
And climbed the hills of Italy
I swam with mermaids in the  Mediterranean
And found secrets in the countryside of Ireland

I walked where kings walked
Traced the footsteps of men who changed the world
I fell in love with places
And was overwhelmed with the kindness of strangers

And when I stood at the top of the world
I was humbled at its size
And discovered what a small piece you are
Of my grand story
Alvaro Jul 2016
I've got a flame within my chest

and you are the fuel my heart is seeking

now, if only,

would you please douse me in gasoline
Alvaro Jun 2016
Hay noches cuando mi imaginación hace lo imposible; a través de versos y rimas te conjura a mi lado y te siento aquí. A través de recuerdos me aplaca y me soba la espalda. Me dice que todo estará bien.

Pero también hay noches cuando mi imaginación no me quita la sed de ti. Cuando ninguna metáfora o línea bonita me bastan. Cuando no es suficiente encontrarte en cualquier renglón o canción.

Hay noches donde lo único que necesito, es a ti entre mis brazos.
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There are nights where my imagination achieves the impossible. Through verses and rhymes, it summons you next to me.
I can feel you.
Through memories it soothes me and rubs my back.
It tells me everything will be ok.

But there are nights when my imagination cannot quench my thirst for you.
Nights when no metaphor or pretty line are enough.
Nights when finding you in sheets of paper or in a song won't suffice.

There are nights when the only thing I need, is to hold you in my arms.
Alvaro Jun 2016
¿como le haces?
¿como le haces para despertar tan facil y bajar los dos pies de la cama?
¿como le haces para cerrar los ojos cada noche, sabiendo que despertaras sin mi?
¿como le hacess para no detenerte durante el dia y pensar en nosotros?
¿como le haces para que nada te recuerde a mi, cuando yo con cada respiro inhalo tu ausencia?
Dime como le haces, porque yo ya no se que hacer.
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how do you manage?
how do you manage to wake up so easily
and bring both feet down from your bed?
how do you manage to close your eyes each night
knowing you'll wake up without me?
how do you manage to not halt during the day
and think about us?
how do you manage to not be reminded of me
when every time I breathe I inhale your absence?
tell me how you do it, because I don't know what to do
Alvaro Jun 2016
Ella es una maga
Bajo cualquier techo que nos encontremos se convierte en su escenario
Y yo,
en un voluntario del publico
No usa varitas ni sombreros ni trucos de humo
Y con una sola mirada
me desaparece
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She's a magician
Anytime we share a room, it becomes her stage
And I, a volunteer from the audience
She doesn't use wands, or hats, or smoke tricks
With a single gaze, she makes me disappear
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