Before* you,

there was no one.

And after you,

there will only be your
shadow..

*Sandoval

We were roses,
washed ashore.

Floating in an
endless universe.

Full of magic,
full of hope.

Carrying our
decaying beauty,

everywhere
we go..


*Sandoval

His lips tasted of burnt
galaxies,

and broken
promises.

The perfect combination
for prolonged
tragedies..


*Sandoval

Time* always
takes,

but never
gives.

And if you ask me,
what you were to me.

you were a watch on my
wrist.


*Sandoval

If you and I

were never meant to be,

then why does it hurt

this much to set you

free..


*Sandoval

You begged me,

to fall in love with the
moon.

So I could get

accustomed to having all of
you,

but then, none
at all too..


*Sandoval

I just write.

Make of my words,

whatever you

want..


*Sandoval

I woke up

in the middle of the night.
Drowning in your absence,
suffocating in your silence..

It was late out,
skies cried and stars fell.
The day the universe finally

understood, what
your lips could
never tell.

*Sandoval

I live inside the
moon,

for she is chained
to this earth.

And I am chained
to you.

*Sandoval

I would have

died a million
deaths.

Before I saw

our love take
its last two

breaths.


*Sandoval

Do not tell me,

that the moon
is yours to own.

Then run away when
the sun leaves the

earth.


*Sandoval

But darling,

you eternalize
everything

good in this
world.

*Sandoval

I left beauty marks
on his soul.

I shattered him,
to light.

And in return, he gave me
memories and darkness
to fight..


*Sandoval

Do not dim

your lights, then
ask me why

I love the dark
so much..

*Sandoval

I do not care if you have
gone.

You took my heart with
you.

And what one does not
have,

can no longer break in
half.


*Sandoval

Be happy with her.

Leave me alone to die,
with your broken song still inside of me.

Though its melody is now old,
and out of tune.

It still remains my favorite
sound.

*Sandoval

You compared us,

to Paul Newman
and
Joanne Woodward.

But baby, you ran.
He stayed.

Tell me again,
how we're still the same..

*Sandoval

In the
distant stars.

The light
of your eyes,

fought
on..

*Sandoval

I listen to the sound
of the waves.

Looking for a clue,
an echo of your silence.

And I patiently
wait for you.

Like Amphitrite
waited for Poseidon.

*Sandoval

He was a blank book.

With my ink of sonnets,

I gave him a story,
syllables full of stars.

I made him
readable, interesting, intriguing.

But, the last thing that ever crossed my mind,

was that sitting there,
on that shelf, I also made him

reachable.


*Sandoval

I tore down every bridge,
and every wall to let you in.

I dried lakes, rivers, oceans,
to save you from drowning.

I found myself,
draining in weakness to strengthen you.

You became powerful, you became immortal,
you became my god.

Now I clench onto this sadness of mine.
The loneliness you left behind.

Its the only thing that reminds me,
our story was once alive.

Its my safe place.
When you're gone,

and I need a muse to help
bleed all this pain out.

Like tonight,
when writing about the moon,
can no longer help me survive.


*Sandoval

I've seen you

dancing, to rhythm

of the moon.

I wonder, if I were up there,

would you have loved me too..


*Sandoval

A rose only grows

by getting watered,

and being

acknowledged

by light. Same goes

with love.

*Sandoval

Dead* sea,

burnt memories.

This lonely mermaid,

has no more stories.

*Sandoval

You can mend a

broken heart,

but never with the same

string twice.


*Sandoval

She lays her head
on a daydream.

Ink rhymes, sad cries.
Fallen stars, swollen eyes.

he's gone
and so am I.

*Sandoval

We knew stars
had no way of getting back home,

once they fell to the earth.
Yet their dusk would flow back into space.

Fall back into gravity,
and transform into a meteorite.
Because just like caterpillars,

everything in the universe, converts.

This storm will lose its form.
And you and I, once again, my love,

we will be un-torn.


*Sandoval

How many wars
must we fight,

to finally realize,

we were always
enough.


*Sandoval

And, what am I to you?
He asked.

--You, She replied.
Are the roots to this beautiful flower,

and my heart is like the sun.
As long as you

keep growing, it'll never let you die.


*Sandoval

Silence* doesn't ****,

but oh,

how does it

deceive us.

*Sandoval

Thirty seven thousand feet,
in the air.

Scattered towns
look like tiny galaxies in the night sky.

I could write a thousand poems.

But all I can think of is
the magic in your eyes.

*Sandoval

I looked up to him, as he stood there,
right in front of me.

I felt the stars burning inside
my clenched hands.

I wanted to touch him,
with this hopeless light running

through my long thin fingers.
The moon was imprinted
in his eyes,

and I could count
every constellation of his freckled countenance.
But, I could not yield.

He was a black hole, and I was the sun.
One step closer,
and he'd take my whole life.

What do you do with a love like that?
If not love from afar.


*Sandoval

With Neruda, I fell in love with you.

It was so beautiful, I felt I had to close my eyes wide shut,

just to remember this was not a dream.

Then Hemingway came along, by then I was feeling a little lost in your eyes. Some days were good, some days were bad. Yet, I still held on.

But when I suddenly found myself with Bukowski on my nightstand.

Well, I knew then, baby, we were ******. He brought me back to reality, and I understood at that moment, that we were finally done.


*Sandoval

My lips no longer taste of you.

He kissed away your breath, and sent it out to sea.

It drowned in a storm

where I no longer feel your pain.

And washed away, to a place where you

no longer have a name.


*Sandoval

I write what

I feel,

and I feel

what I write.


*Sandoval

My universe hung from the tip of his fingers.

As he played my constellations to rhythm
of his own selfish desires.

He created the moon to tame me,
and the stars to make me believe in his magic.

But he forgot one thing, his sun gave me fire,

and his strings gave me strength. My galaxies at last,
had no lengths.


*Sandoval

That empty feeling inside of me,

when everything reminds me of him.

I cry and I sigh, but the pain just wont subside.
How do you hide from whats inside?

When its your soul who cant breathe,

and hes everything you need.


*Sandoval

We defied our darkness.

Like Alpherg and Antares;

together with their decaying light,

they became stronger than a million suns.


*Sandoval

My soul

is  empty,

the sadness

drained it out.


*Sandoval

You* said you would love me,

until the end of your days.

Well I believe you died not long after that,
and resurrected from stones.

You no longer love me,

and your memory aches in these bones.


*Sandoval

He* gave me in one look,


what a thousand sunsets


never could.


*Sandoval

I was not born a

poet.

I was broken into

one.


*Sandoval

Love* is a drug,

distance is rehab.

One look from you eyes,

and I'll relapse.

*Sandoval

Like the horizon hiding between the

sea and the sky,

near and distant all at once. To me,

that's what you are.

*Sandoval

She* could see it in his eyes.

He was leaving soon, and it was too late to try.

She wanted to scream "stay," but in their silence,

she understood it was goodbye.


*Sandoval

But you're just a screen again.

A daydream in mid Novembers falling leaves.

That euphoria of seeing you again, wont leave

my skin; and it breaks my bones with words,

poetry, only you can get out of me.

*Sandoval

Winter dawns on me. The cold of the air, suffocates

my bones. I look outside and flowers are blooming in.

I'm slowly dying inside these four walls.

I love you, but as I watch you leave,

time slowly falls, and I drop to my knees.


*Sandoval

Her lips kissing your neck, her hands caressing  your hair,

could not wake me from my slumber.

But your eyes looking into hers, the way you looked

into mine. Well that, I could not bare.  And so,

I woke from my nightmare. Only to realize,

that you were not there.


*Sandoval

I'm as sad as they come.

As lonely as they get, and,

weird as they can be.

You decide if you stay or leave.


*Sandoval

And so that men

knew about gentlemanlieness.

The sun would bow to the moon every night,

and admire her beauty from afar.


*Sandoval