Here I am
in the midst of sadness
joining pieces of memories
useless effort
the hours do not retrace their steps
nor is love ever beggared

young woman, beloved mine
flames of desire in our small room
suddenly
a flash of lightning illuminated your naked body
slowly approaching me
and your enigmatic smile that invites me to paradise

The bar table displays empty beer bottles.

A cigarette is still smoking in an ashtray.

No one is sitting around

Everyone has left

After hours of talking, laughing, dreaming

Everyone went home as best they could

Countless bottles and cigarettes

Have paraded in front of us.

Countless friends and lovers

Whose names and faces we can hardly remember.

So it is and will always be

Brief instants in a sea of loneliness

Kisses, laughter and caresses that fade in time.

books everywhere
half-finished pages
the dim room
outside it rains heavily
I smoke my last cigarette
inspiration takes time to arrive

sitting at the border of nowhere
at the edge of  madness or the enlightenment
with my eyes flooded with tears
I only hope is to be rescued by the inscrutable beauty of poetry

tangled voices
with the sound of the waves
and the murmur of the trees
they say something
something suggest
a riddle
an oracle
it will be the announcement of something terrible
or a love that is approaching
this is the charm and mysterie of life itself

The truth
stream going upward to a blue mountain
impossible to conceive
impossible to reach
for this, almost all of us live behind masks that hide our essence
disguises that confuse and conceal
and finally make the truth unreachable