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Palabras, frases, sílabas, astros que giran alrededor de un centro fijo. Dos cuerpos, muchos seres que se encuentran en una
palabra. El papel se cubre de letras indelebles, que nadie dijo, que nadie dictó, que han caído allí y arden y queman y
se apagan. Así pues, existe la poesía, el amor existe. Y si yo no existo, existes tú.

El poema prepara un orden amoroso. Preveo un hombre-sol y una mujer-luna, el uno libre de su poder, la otra libre de su esclavitud, y
amores implacables rayando el espacio *****. Todo ha de ceder a esas águilas incandescentes.

Todo poema se cumple a expensas del poeta.

Mediodía futuro, árbol inmenso de follaje invisible. En las plazas cantan los hombres y las mujeres el canto solar, surtidor de
transparencias. Me cubre la marejada amarilla: nada mío ha de hablar por mi boca.

Cuando la Historia duerme, habla en sueños; en la frente del pueblo dormido el poema es una constelación de sangre. Cuando a
Historia despierta, la imagen se hace acto, acontece el poema; la poesía entra en acción.

Merece lo que sueñas.
[Greek: Mellonta  sauta’]

These things are in the future.

Sophocles—’Antig.’

‘Una.’

“Born again?”

‘Monos.’

Yes, fairest and best beloved Una, “born again.” These were
the words upon whose mystical meaning I had so long
pondered, rejecting the explanations of the priesthood,
until Death itself resolved for me the secret.

‘Una.’

Death!

‘Monos.’

How strangely, sweet Una, you echo my words! I
observe, too, a vacillation in your step, a joyous
inquietude in your eyes. You are confused and oppressed by
the majestic novelty of the Life Eternal. Yes, it was of
Death I spoke. And here how singularly sounds that word
which of old was wont to bring terror to all hearts,
throwing a mildew upon all pleasures!

‘Una.’

Ah, Death, the spectre which sate at all feasts! How often,
Monos, did we lose ourselves in speculations upon its
nature! How mysteriously did it act as a check to human
bliss, saying unto it, “thus far, and no farther!” That
earnest mutual love, my own Monos, which burned within our
bosoms, how vainly did we flatter ourselves, feeling happy
in its first upspringing that our happiness would strengthen
with its strength! Alas, as it grew, so grew in our hearts
the dread of that evil hour which was hurrying to separate
us forever! Thus in time it became painful to love. Hate
would have been mercy then.

‘Monos’.

Speak not here of these griefs, dear Una—mine, mine
forever now!

‘Una’.

But the memory of past sorrow, is it not present joy? I have
much to say yet of the things which have been. Above all, I
burn to know the incidents of your own passage through the
dark Valley and Shadow.

‘Monos’.

And when did the radiant Una ask anything of her Monos in
vain? I will be minute in relating all, but at what point
shall the weird narrative begin?

‘Una’.

At what point?

‘Monos’.

You have said.

‘Una’.

Monos, I comprehend you. In Death we have both learned the
propensity of man to define the indefinable. I will not say,
then, commence with the moment of life’s cessation—but
commence with that sad, sad instant when, the fever having
abandoned you, you sank into a breathless and motionless
torpor, and I pressed down your pallid eyelids with the
passionate fingers of love.

‘Monos’.

One word first, my Una, in regard to man’s general condition
at this epoch. You will remember that one or two of the wise
among our forefathers—wise in fact, although not in
the world’s esteem—had ventured to doubt the propriety
of the term “improvement,” as applied to the progress of our
civilization. There were periods in each of the five or six
centuries immediately preceding our dissolution when arose
some vigorous intellect, boldly contending for those
principles whose truth appears now, to our disenfranchised
reason, so utterly obvious —principles which should
have taught our race to submit to the guidance of the
natural laws rather than attempt their control. At long
intervals some master-minds appeared, looking upon each
advance in practical science as a retrogradation in the true
utility. Occasionally the poetic intellect—that
intellect which we now feel to have been the most exalted of
all—since those truths which to us were of the most
enduring importance could only be reached by that analogy
which speaks in proof-tones to the imagination alone,
and to the unaided reason bears no weight—occasionally
did this poetic intellect proceed a step farther in the
evolving of the vague idea of the philosophic, and find in
the mystic parable that tells of the tree of knowledge, and
of its forbidden fruit, death-producing, a distinct
intimation that knowledge was not meet for man in the infant
condition of his soul. And these men—the poets—
living and perishing amid the scorn of the
“utilitarians”—of rough pedants, who arrogated to
themselves a title which could have been properly applied
only to the scorned—these men, the poets, pondered
piningly, yet not unwisely, upon the ancient days when our
wants were not more simple than our enjoyments were
keen—days when mirth was a word unknown, so
solemnly deep-toned was happiness—holy, august, and
blissful days, blue rivers ran undammed, between hills
unhewn, into far forest solitudes, primeval, odorous, and
unexplored. Yet these noble exceptions from the general
misrule served but to strengthen it by opposition. Alas! we
had fallen upon the most evil of all our evil days. The
great “movement”—that was the cant term—went on:
a diseased commotion, moral and physical. Art—the
Arts—arose supreme, and once enthroned, cast chains
upon the intellect which had elevated them to power. Man,
because he could not but acknowledge the majesty of Nature,
fell into childish exultation at his acquired and still-
increasing dominion over her elements. Even while he stalked
a God in his own fancy, an infantine imbecility came over
him. As might be supposed from the origin of his disorder,
he grew infected with system, and with abstraction. He
enwrapped himself in generalities. Among other odd ideas,
that of universal equality gained ground; and in the face of
analogy and of God—in despite of the loud warning
voice of the laws of gradation so visibly pervading
all things in Earth and Heaven—wild attempts at an
omniprevalent Democracy were made. Yet this evil sprang
necessarily from the leading evil, Knowledge. Man could not
both know and succumb. Meantime huge smoking cities arose,
innumerable. Green leaves shrank before the hot breath of
furnaces. The fair face of Nature was deformed as with the
ravages of some loathsome disease. And methinks, sweet Una,
even our slumbering sense of the forced and of the far-
fetched might have arrested us here. But now it appears that
we had worked out our own destruction in the ******* of
our taste, or rather in the blind neglect of its
culture in the schools. For, in truth, it was at this crisis
that taste alone—that faculty which, holding a middle
position between the pure intellect and the moral sense,
could never safely have been disregarded—it was now
that taste alone could have led us gently back to Beauty, to
Nature, and to Life. But alas for the pure contemplative
spirit and majestic intuition of Plato! Alas for the [Greek:
mousichae]  which he justly regarded as an all-sufficient
education for the soul! Alas for him and for it!—since
both were most desperately needed, when both were most
entirely forgotten or despised. Pascal, a philosopher whom
we both love, has said, how truly!—”Que tout notre
raisonnement se reduit a ceder au sentiment;” and it is
not impossible that the sentiment of the natural, had time
permitted it, would have regained its old ascendency over
the harsh mathematical reason of the schools. But this thing
was not to be. Prematurely induced by intemperance of
knowledge, the old age of the world drew near. This the mass
of mankind saw not, or, living lustily although unhappily,
affected not to see. But, for myself, the Earth’s records
had taught me to look for widest ruin as the price of
highest civilization. I had imbibed a prescience of our Fate
from comparison of China the simple and enduring, with
Assyria the architect, with Egypt the astrologer, with
Nubia, more crafty than either, the turbulent mother of all
Arts. In the history of these regions I met with a ray from
the Future. The individual artificialities of the three
latter were local diseases of the Earth, and in their
individual overthrows we had seen local remedies applied;
but for the infected world at large I could anticipate no
regeneration save in death. That man, as a race, should not
become extinct, I saw that he must be “born again.”

And now it was, fairest and dearest, that we wrapped our
spirits, daily, in dreams. Now it was that, in twilight, we
discoursed of the days to come, when the Art-scarred surface
of the Earth, having undergone that purification which alone
could efface its rectangular obscenities, should clothe
itself anew in the verdure and the mountain-slopes and the
smiling waters of Paradise, and be rendered at length a fit
dwelling-place for man:—for man the
Death-purged—for man to whose now exalted intellect
there should be poison in knowledge no more—for the
redeemed, regenerated, blissful, and now immortal, but still
for the material, man.

‘Una’.

Well do I remember these conversations, dear Monos; but the
epoch of the fiery overthrow was not so near at hand as we
believed, and as the corruption you indicate did surely
warrant us in believing. Men lived; and died individually.
You yourself sickened, and passed into the grave; and
thither your constant Una speedily followed you. And though
the century which has since elapsed, and whose conclusion
brings up together once more, tortured our slumbering senses
with no impatience of duration, yet my Monos, it was a
century still.

‘Monos’.

Say, rather, a point in the vague infinity. Unquestionably,
it was in the Earth’s dotage that I died. Wearied at heart
with anxieties which had their origin in the general turmoil
and decay, I succumbed to the fierce fever. After some few
days of pain, and many of dreamy delirium replete with
ecstasy, the manifestations of which you mistook for pain,
while I longed but was impotent to undeceive you—after
some days there came upon me, as you have said, a breathless
and motionless torpor; and this was termed Death by
those who stood around me.

Words are vague things. My condition did not deprive me of
sentience. It appeared to me not greatly dissimilar to the
extreme quiescence of him, who, having slumbered long and
profoundly, lying motionless and fully prostrate in a mid-
summer noon, begins to steal slowly back into consciousness,
through the mere sufficiency of his sleep, and without being
awakened by external disturbances.

I breathed no longer. The pulses were still. The heart had
ceased to beat. Volition had not departed, but was
powerless. The senses were unusually active, although
eccentrically so—assuming often each other’s functions
at random. The taste and the smell were inextricably
confounded, and became one sentiment, abnormal and intense.
The rose-water with which your tenderness had moistened my
lips to the last, affected me with sweet fancies of
flowers—fantastic flowers, far more lovely than any of
the old Earth, but whose prototypes we have here blooming
around us. The eye-lids, transparent and bloodless, offered
no complete impediment to vision. As volition was in
abeyance, the ***** could not roll in their sockets—
but all objects within the range of the visual hemisphere
were seen with more or less distinctness; the rays which
fell upon the external retina, or into the corner of the
eye, producing a more vivid effect than those which struck
the front or interior surface. Yet, in the former instance,
this effect was so far anomalous that I appreciated it only
as sound—sound sweet or discordant as the
matters presenting themselves at my side were light or dark
in shade—curved or angular in outline. The hearing, at
the same time, although excited in degree, was not irregular
in action—estimating real sounds with an extravagance
of precision, not less than of sensibility. Touch had
undergone a modification more peculiar. Its impressions were
tardily received, but pertinaciously retained, and resulted
always in the highest physical pleasure. Thus the pressure
of your sweet fingers upon my eyelids, at first only
recognized through vision, at length, long after their
removal, filled my whole being with a sensual delight
immeasurable. I say with a sensual delight. All my
perceptions were purely sensual. The materials furnished the
passive brain by the senses were not in the least degree
wrought into shape by the deceased understanding. Of pain
there was some little; of pleasure there was much; but of
moral pain or pleasure none at all. Thus your wild sobs
floated into my ear with all their mournful cadences, and
were appreciated in their every variation of sad tone; but
they were soft musical sounds and no more; they conveyed to
the extinct reason no intimation of the sorrows which gave
them birth; while large and constant tears which fell upon
my face, telling the bystanders of a heart which broke,
thrilled every fibre of my frame with ecstasy alone. And
this was in truth the Death of which these bystanders
spoke reverently, in low whispers—you, sweet Una,
gaspingly, with loud cries.

They attired me for the coffin—three or four dark
figures which flitted busily to and fro. As these crossed
the direct line of my vision they affected me as forms;
but upon passing to my side their images impressed me
with the idea of shrieks, groans, and, other dismal
expressions of terror, of horror, or of woe. You alone,
habited in a white robe, passed in all directions musically
about.

The day waned; and, as its light faded away, I became
possessed by a vague uneasiness—an anxiety such as the
sleeper feels when sad real sounds fall continuously within
his ear—low distant bell-tones, solemn, at long but
equal intervals, and commingling with melancholy dreams.
Night arrived; and with its shadows a heavy discomfort. It
oppressed my limbs with the oppression of some dull weight,
and was palpable. There was also a moaning sound, not unlike
the distant reverberation of surf, but more continuous,
which, beginning with the first twilight, had grown in
strength with the darkness. Suddenly lights were brought
into the rooms, and this reverberation became forthwith
interrupted into frequent unequal bursts of the same sound,
but less dreary and less distinct. The ponderous oppression
was in a great measure relieved; and, issuing from the flame
of each lamp (for there were many), there flowed unbrokenly
into my ears a strain of melodious monotone. And when now,
dear Una, approaching the bed upon which I lay outstretched,
you sat gently by my side, breathing odor from your sweet
lips, and pressing them upon my brow, there arose
tremulously within my *****, and mingling with the merely
physical sensations which circumstances had called forth, a
something akin to sentiment itself—a feeling that,
half appreciating, half responded to your earnest love and
sorrow; but this feeling took no root in the pulseless
heart, and seemed indeed rather a shadow than a reality, and
faded quickly away, first into extreme quiescence, and then
into a purely sensual pleasure as before.

And now, from the wreck and the chaos of the usual senses,
there appeared to have arisen within me a sixth, all
perfect. In its exercise I found a wild delight—yet a
delight still physical, inasmuch as the understanding had in
it no part. Motion in the animal frame had fully ceased. No
muscle quivered; no nerve thrilled; no artery throbbed. But
there seemed to have sprung up in the brain that of
which no words could convey to the merely human intelligence
even an indistinct conception. Let me term it a mental
pendulous pulsation. It was the moral embodiment of man’s
abstract idea of Time. By the absolute equalization
of this movement—or of such as this—had the
cycles of the firmamental orbs themselves been adjusted. By
its aid I measured the irregularities of the clock upon the
mantel, and of the watches of the attendants. Their tickings
came sonorously to my ears. The slightest deviations from
the true proportion—and these deviations were
omniprevalent—affected me just as violations of
abstract truth were wont on earth to affect the moral sense.
Although no two of the timepieces in the chamber struck the
individual seconds accurately together, yet I had no
difficulty in holding steadily in mind the tones, and the
respective momentary errors of each. And this—this
keen, perfect self-existing sentiment of
duration—this sentiment existing (as man could
not possibly have conceived it to exist) independently of
any succession of events—this idea—this sixth
sense, upspringing from the ashes of the rest, was the first
obvious and certain step of the intemporal soul upon the
threshold of the temporal eternity.

It was midnight; and you still sat by my side. All others
had departed from the chamber of Death. They had deposited
me in the coffin. The lamps burned flickeringly; for this I
knew by the tremulousness of the monotonous strains. But
suddenly these strains diminished in distinctness and in
volume. Finally they ceased. The perfume in my nostrils died
aw
Natalia Rivera Oct 2015
Yo no solía rezar
Hasta que la conocí.
Era difícil no ceder a sus tentaciones
En el pueblo decían que era ella
La dama de noche, vicio de los hombres.
Pero yo quería probarla, ocupar un lugar
Entre sus risos desordenados.
Le pedí una noche, solo una.
Ella divertida acepto y la seguí hipnotizada
Al llegar a la recamara se despojó de su vestido
Permitiéndome ver lo blanco de su piel
Se acercó a mí y sin preámbulos me plantó un beso.
Sutiles sus labios, deliciosos.
Una caricia por la espalda, otra en las caderas
Me quita el suéter y la falda.
Sentía sus dedos explorar la humedad
Entre mis piernas, haciendo a un lado el vello.
Su lengua recorría mis senos y su mirada
Estaba fija en mí, se mordía los labios
Me gemía suavemente al oído.
La sentía dentro de mí
Haciendo movimientos lentos
-No te resistas, déjame mostrarte…
Y como quien obedece sin preguntar
Deje que una ola de placer inundara mi cuerpo
Haciendo la habitación pequeña, silenciando todo.
No sé si había pasado una o tres horas
Pero yo yacía desnuda, empapada en sudor
La habitación olía extraño me incorporo
Para encontrarla sentada en la ventana
Aun desnuda fumándose un cigarro.
Al verme sonríe y me ofrece un trago
Era una diosa tallada por la vida.
Un último beso fue plasmado antes de marcharse
Y de eso ha pasado seis años.
Yo no solía rezar
Hasta que la conocí.
Me he topado con ella varias veces
Como viento que mueve hojas
En las noches que el cielo este despejado
Le suelo gritar al viento
Oh María, sin pecado concebida
Tráemela una noche, solo una.
Coral Sep 2018
Take me to the ceder trees
The yellow marigolds
Take the women to farms
The men to the fields
The children play in the mud
Babies born at home
Their final homes on a somber hill
Each with their names and nothing more
We don’t need to explain who they were
They’re our family

The dogs run all day heard the sheep
The cows lay in the sun
The hens chase the grasshoppers
The grasshoppers eat my grandmothers flowers

Life was quiter
Simplistic
Take me back

To live in Gods creation is all one needs
Fah Feb 2015
For all the women in my family who have come before me.

I vow now
to give myself the space to be kind to myself when I am faced
with our family pattern of self-hate

I will not spit in my face and demolish myself
I will stand with forgiveness
dripping from my eyes

I vow now
to utilize the opportunity
I have been given
of being free from the burden of being molested or ***** as a child,
I vow to respect myself, share my body with this respect
give my partner this respect and dance
the life giving creation song       with a heart

fleshy and vulnerable
landscapes of plains and bayous rising up across my skin, my folds will nestle medicine gardens
Inside of my ears I will plant Ceder trees

I will step into my strength, into my power I will rise
like a hot air current moving from the land up to the sky to form storm clouds
in a system of elegant design

I recognize
with this mighty power comes the power to be gentler still
so whilst the storm plays her play, I will also maintain
the quivering softness of a spring stream
high up in the mountains green
long grass wildflowers
melt from within me

fragrance heavenly.

For all of us I vow
to live a life where I utilize the power I have inherited
and I thank you
with these actions,
I write your songs in my movements
Your strength, poise, grace, ambition and genius has not gone in vain
Your stories live on inside of my veins

with these words I call out to you.
I thank you for your hard graft
I thank you for your silence
I thank you for your grace and your poise
I thank you for your strength
and I thank you
thank you
thank you
Natalia Rivera Jun 2014
La vida me mostro  que no importa cuántas personas tenga a mi alrededor siempre estaré sola. Me enseño a no depender de nadie, a no dejar de ser yo misma solo por encajar en un grupo social. Aprendí esto son de cantazos, de muchas noches llorando, de coraje, frustración & de acciones erróneas que llegue a tomar bajo coraje. Opte por ser egoísta porque me canse, me canse como se cansa un viejo matrimonio arreglado fingiendo que es feliz, me canse ceder a la merced de todos para nada. Y esto no se trata de dar para recibir, se trata de igualdad. Se trata de personas que te juzgan solo por que no conocen tus motivos, se trata de personas que solo se llenan la boca de estiércol cuando no se imaginan por todo lo que pasa la otra persona. Es muy fácil burlarse de la gorda del grupo solo porque no cumple con tus expectativas de belleza, es muy fácil burlarse de la que se mutila porque para ti eso es de inmaduros, es muy fácil creerte superior a una dama solo porque los estereotipos dicen que el hombre es el **** fuerte. Pero si el mundo gira en dirección contraria & a un amigo le sucede eso & necesita con quien hablar ahí estas tu como un idiota de nuevo, tratando de ayudar a quien te hunde, tratando de salvar a alguien que te mata con cada palabra que sale de su boca. Ahí estas de nuevo. Ahora te pregunto, vale la pena darlo todo por alguien que no da nada por ti?  Para que estar con personas que te hacen daño? Crees que es necesario el humillarte así?  . No, por supuesto que no, pero tenemos miedo. Tenemos miedo a quedarnos solos, le tenemos miedo a la soledad, a que nadie sepa que estamos aquí, a ser invisibles. Yo elegí ser egoísta, elegí solo preocuparme por mi, porque si yo no lo hago entonces quien lo hará por mi? No dependas de los demás, no dejes que los demás controlen tus emociones. No permitas que te hagan tanto daño emocional. Tu das mas que eso, sal adelante, si no tienes con quien hablar o con quien pasar el tiempo quédate solo. Como dice una de las canciones de mi querido Arjona “no es bueno el que te ayuda si no el que no te molesta” Tu decides si mirarlos a todos desde abajo o sacarle el dedo a todos los que te dijeron “ no puedes” desde arriba. Tu eres quien te pones barreras & quien las quita, eres quien toma las decisiones importantes en tu vida. En ti esta salir de esa charca para experimentar la grandeza del océano
Mike Hauser May 2013
I inherited an old run down shotgun  shack
In a South Florida town
From an Uncle I had no idea I had
He never came around

It was the shed out back that held my interest
Filled with memories, dust, and spider webs
Was I just being adventurous
Or was I being led

Opposite the door in the corner stood a ceder chest
Covered over in a layer of dust
The latch and lock lay on the dirt floor
Long ago succumbed to rust

The inside was filled with pirate writings
Which you know is a poets dream
No maps of hidden treasures
But hidden treasures all the same

I took to those pirate writings
Like an angry moth takes to flame
Drawn in close like his life depends
On the wave of heat it brings

Page after page of high sea adventures
And far off exotic lands
I spent that afternoon well into the night dreaming
With pirate treasure held in my hands

I don't know how long it was I'd been asleep
When I woke up to a dust filtered light
Shining through a broken windowpane
In the shed where I'd spent the night

But I really spent it on the high open seas
And in far off exotic lands
Where when it gets back around to evening time
With pirate writings I plan to go again
Megan Hundley Apr 2012
I didn't like the smog
so I curled up deeper into
the corner of your pocket

when you reach for chapstick
to fight off the dry
there might be lint
there might be
paper leftovers from the cut outs
holding hands
there is still some white
under my nails

I hope you didn't see

I fell out of the hole
along with the coins
singed my sleeve with surprise
I had to avert my eyes when the
check came

I hope you didn't see

put your head higher
toward the sun and you
could be blind and deaf
everything is pretty
when you just don't realize
what you're missing

I'll reside beneath the ceder
wise about what is beauty and
what is molding wood
don't call for me
when all you see is
a rotten bench

I hope you see I'm missing
mariü Apr 2021
Me ves comer y se te ilumia la cara,
y preguntas cuánto llevo sin vomitar
y no sé que decirte porque no quiero fallar,
aunque lo haré o a ti, o a todos, o a mi.

No, mi cuerpo ya no se marea al levantarse,
mi muñeca ya no puede ser rodeada por mi mano
y las heridas de mis dedos,
causadas por los ácidos de mi estómago,
han desaparecido.

Pero de qué sirve cuando cada bocado es insoportable,
cuando tú cabeza no tiene espacio para nada que no sean calorias.
De qué sirve cuando te encuentras en el baño,
arrodillada, lo más lejos del vater para no ceder,
o delante del espejo encima de la báscula llorando porque
la recuperación física no es la mental
Ya el sol esconde sus rayos,
el mundo en sombras se vela,
el ave a su nido vuela.
Busca asilo el trovador.
Todo calla: en pobre cama
duerme el pastor venturoso:
en su lecho suntüoso
se agita insomme el señor.
Se agita; mas ¡ay! reposa
al fin en su patrio suelo;
no llora en mísero duelo
la libertad que perdió.
Los campos ve que a su infancia
horas dieron de contento,
su oído halaga el acento
del país donde nació.
No gime ilustre cautivo
entre doradas cadenas,
que si bien de encanto llenas,
al cabo cadenas son.
Si acaso, triste lamenta,
en torno ve a sus amigos,
que, de su pena testigos,
consuelan su corazón.
La arrogante erguida palma
que en el desierto florece,
al viajero sombra ofrece,
descanso y grato manjar.
Y, aunque sola, allí es querida
del árabe errante y fiero,
que siempre va placentero
a su sombra a reposar.
Mas ¡ay triste! yo cautiva,
huérfana y sola suspiro,
el clima extraño respiro,
y amo a un extraño también.
No hallan mis ojos mi patria;
humo han sido mis amores;
nadie calma mis dolores
y en celos me siento arder.
¡Ah! ¿Llorar? ¿Llorar?... no puedo
ni ceder a mi tristura,
ni consuelo en mi amargura
podré jamás encontrar.
Supe amar como ninguna,
supe amar correspondida;
despreciada, aborrecida,
¿no sabré también odiar?
¡Adiós, patria! ¡adiós, amores!
La infeliz Zoraida ahora
sólo venganzas implora,
ya condenada a morir.
No soy ya del castellano
la sumisa enamorada:
soy la cautiva cansada
ya de dejarse oprimir.
Tú eras el huracán, y yo la alta
torre que desafía su poder.
¡Tenías que estrellarte o que abatirme...!
        ¡No pudo ser!Tú eras el océano; y yo la enhiesta
roca que firme aguarda su vaivén.
¡Tenías que romperte o que arrancarme...!
        ¡No pudo ser!Hermosa tú, yo altivo; acostumbrados
uno a arrollar, el otro a no ceder;
la senda estrecha, inevitable el choque...
        ¡No pudo ser!
Mariana Seabra Mar 2022
Escrevo esta fábula em forma de poema,

Na tentativa que seja mais fácil de a recordar.

Agarro numa folha e desenho algumas letras,

Penso em dois animais que nos possam caracterizar.

E assim, começa, como é suposto qualquer fábula começar:



Era uma vez um leão

Perdido na floresta.

Os homens que o viam, fugiam...

Pobre leão! que fizeram que ti uma besta,

Condenaram-te ao exílio,  

Sem terem qualquer razão.

Idiotas! Que já nem diferenciam

Um animal a rugir de medo

De uma besta humana  

Que foge dele em desespero.  



Andou meses e meses  

Às voltas, desorientado,  

No meio da extensa vegetação.

Não havia uma voz que o guiasse,

Não havia uma alma amiga que lhe esticasse a mão.



Só ele conhece e sente o horror  

de ser chamado de predador.

Ouvir mais gritos do que risos,  

Levar mais pancada do que amor.

Só quem o conhece sabe que não o faz por mal.

Faz sim, por sobrevivência, por instinto natural.





Pobre leão!  

Nessa floresta,  

Desencantada,

Por qualquer trilho que andava

Só encontrava a solidão…



Num belo dia de chuva,

Caída como que por compaixão,

Espreitou uma pequena aranha

Através do denso pêlo do leão.



Arrastada pelo vento,

Para sua maior alegria ou desalento,

Foi no seu pêlo que, ela, decidiu pousar.



Terá visto, no leão,

Um porto seguro

Para se refugiar?





Tinha medo da chuva?  

Ou era nele que se queria hospedar?



Habituado a estar sozinho,

Forçosamente isolado,

Este pobre leão cansado,

Ao mínimo toque da aranha

Saiu a correr disparado…



Não estava habituado

A ter companhia.



Aquela doce aranha,

Que nem por um segundo o largou,

Entendeu porque é que ele a temia...

Decidiu correr a seu lado e,

Como se fosse pura magia,

Fez brotar no leão  

As sensações que há muito ele desligou.



Foi o ceder do coração,

O reavivar das memórias,

Que logo o abrandou.



Quando se encontraram,

Um ao outro,

Entrelaçados num olhar,

Não foram precisas  

Quaisquer palavras

Para lhes revelar:

Que apesar de qualquer diferença que possam encontrar,

ambos têm o mesmo tamanho

No que toca ao Amor

Que ambos têm  

Para dar.



A aranha sobe ao seu ouvido,

Para lhe poder murmurar:

“Calma, meu pequeno leão,

Sei que estás cansado,

Ferido e traumatizado...

Nunca foi minha intenção te assustar.

Não me temas, nem me afastes!

Não pretendo deixar-te desamparado,

Estou aqui para te curar.

Segue-me tu, agora,  

Tenho um lugar para te mostrar…

O sítio perfeito

Onde vais conseguir descansar.”



O caminho era longo, mas pareceu-lhe menos demorado,

Só porque caminhavam lado a lado.



E quando chegou ao destino,

Ou quando o destino se foi com ele esbarrar,  

O leão nem conseguiu acreditar

Que naquela floresta,

Muito menos solitária,

Era exatamente  

Onde ele precisava de estar…



O tal destino,  

Já traçado,

Assim o veio relembrar

Que às vezes é preciso se perder,

Para mais tarde,

Se reencontrar.



Nessa mesma noite,

A floresta parecia encantada.

Só se ouvia  

dois corações

a bater em sintonia.  

Pum…pum…pum...pum…

Só se viam  

Duas almas nuas

Deitadas e embaladas

Numa teia perfeitamente desenhada.



Quem se atreve a dizer que o leão pertence à savana?

Anda esta gente toda enganada!

Nunca leram a pequena história

Do leão e da aranha.



E quem a ler, talvez dirá, que história mais estranha!
SonLy Mar 2020
Poco a poco se borra tu sonrisa
Sientes donde estás parado
Sientes que debes escapar a prisa
Sino quedarás olvidado

Es inútil llorar, correr o gritar
Ya no tienes voz para sus oídos
Percibes cuál es tu realidad
Las palabras ya pierden sentido

Esperas horas, días, meses y años
Por recibir un poco de lo que te ofrecieron
Piensas que es egoísta quejarnos
El vacío llena todas las palabras que te dijeron

Te pierdes cada día intentando volar
Te pierdes en luces, en sombras, en caminos
Mas, tarde o temprano vuelves a aterrizar
Inconscientemente quieres vivir en este martirio

Ya perdiste la cuenta de todas esas veces
En las que curaste almas usando tu alma misma
Te volviste payaso, sabio, tantas estupideces
Sanaron, se fueron, te quitaron partes de tu vida

Surgen personas que hacen que a ti te olviden
Quedas a un lado y creen que tú no lo sabes
Sería mejor si te dijeran eso que no dicen
A tener que ver aquellas verdades parciales

Por eso esperas, porque aún crees
Que vales para que piensen en cómo estás
Para que no seas sólo un pendiente que poseen
Que con revisarlo de vez en cuando baste ya

Esperas respuestas que no llegan
Esperas lo que no deberías esperar
El frío, la soledad y las voces aumentan
Sólo tus oídos te pueden escuchar

Hablas contigo, y con las voces ajenas
Discutes, sabes que también deben opinar
No las reprimas, puede que no valga la pena
Viven en tu cabeza, y por algo ahí deben estar

El tiempo deja de correr en tu corazón
Las angustias relentizan tus palpitos
Las punzadas ahora se sienten por montón
La ansiedad te abraza, se le ha hecho hábito

Sin embargo, nada es para siempre
Aunque estés con esta pena, podrás
No es la primera vez que así te encuentre
Y no será la última vez, ya lo verás

Sabes que nos tenemos a nosotros mismos
Cuando ya no tengamos a nadie más
Cuando caminemos por la calle perdidos
Nuestros oídos siempre nos escucharán

Espera hasta que ya no sepas qué esperar
No olvides que los demás deben sonreír
Y aunque para hacerte reír nadie quiera estar
Reafirma tu esperanza a lo que esté por venir

La depresión siempre ha estado
Ya no la vemos como si fuera un mal
Pues mucho nos ha enseñado
De lo poco que tenemos a valorar

Un día se irá, y quizás la vayamos a extrañar
Pues estuvo cuando no tenías vida
Y cuando la tuviste supo ceder su lugar
Para que  entiendas el porqué de su partida

Quizás te sientas débil y con pocas fuerzas
Pero un día ni eso tuviste para continuar
Sin embargo, luego de años, aquí estás
Aún nos queda muchísimo por caminar

Lo malo de ser bueno puede ser lo más bueno que nos pueda pasar para no llegar a ser malos
Hay demasiada maldad en las calles como para unirse a un movimiento anónimo tan numeroso
La bondad debe resistir aunque sea en un el más pequeño club, uno o dos que estén dispuestos a mucho más...

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