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DEDICATION
For M,
Without You these words would still be in the stars.
CONTENTS
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
Epigraph
All the words that I gather,
And all the words I write,
Must spread out their wings untiring,
And never rest in their flight,
Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,
And sing to you in the night,
Beyond where the waters are moving,
Storm darkened or starry bright.
— W. B YEATS
Part 1
A CHAPTER FOR HER
I See You
Your name is the Moon.
And your heart is the sun.
We’ve walked in divergent paths,
but I swear I've seen you from the Stars.
Beautiful But Broken
My beautiful girl,
You are what Angels were, beautiful but yet broken.
And it was true that men could never tell the difference between a painting made from ruins, and a masterpiece sculpted from golden fire.
They never seemed to look hard enough. They would have found the pieces in your eyes, as it glistened with imperfection.
Dear Midnight,
there's nothing more beautiful
than a girl who knows she
deserves the world, and the moon
in her pocket.
She keeps the stars in a golden jar,
And tells her story to the night.
Her love comes as peaceful as the wind in the night.
Her tenderness is like whiskey and red wine on the lips,
never failing to intoxicate a fool like me
as I stumble away from her
whispering poems
with closed eyes.
When we fell from the skies
you held me so close
and you took my fall
for that I am grateful,
Forever in your debt.
Women
All the sun I could not hold,
will one day eat me into a pile of ash.
But it was the greatest of pleasure being devoured by them.
Chapters
She was an old pile of books.
Hoping desperately for a
reader, someone to bare her words to,
her deepest most intimate
chapters.
She Was The Night
I am not one to kiss the moon goodbye.
I've become too accustomed to her beautiful glow,
and the way she sings when she's alone in the dark.
Even The Sun Could Blush
I'm a verse full of clichés waiting to embarrass you
with poetic lyrics, until you feel your cheeks flushed
and your head is tilted downwards to avoid my gaze.
And then I'll tell you were the most graceful
creature
ever created.
Sincerely Yours
For a couple of glorious years
I fought through life with you by my side.
And when death conquers me
I hope to be remembered as
the boy who loved you
deeply.
The Quiet After the Storm
When the love is drained and we become nothing but
strangers,
only then will the words we said become calm,
and soft as whispers.
I feel for her with
the intensity that created
a Lightning bolt.
two heartstrings
tangled into one.
Love Yourself
It took an ocean of tears
to realise that the love she had for herself was more
important than the one she expected from others.
if you love someone enough, you don't have to go to
the moon and back to prove it,
all you have to do is to stay right there.
Sad Eyes
Angel, you're bitter from being forsaken.
The promises made to you have all been broken now.
Every time I see you
I find tears trickling down my cheeks,
because I know you deserve better.
WHEN WILL
YOU REALISE
YOU'RE WORTH
MORE THAN
A BILLION STARS,
AND EVEN
ANGELS WILL LOVE YOU.
Call of the wild
She said "call me by the name of stars, constellations
and all things beautiful.
I feel the world
calling out to me,
and I don't know
from where to chase the wild."
Euphoria
We flew to the sky
with wings made from love,
my lips on yours
was the feeling
of being amongst
the stars.
Eve
She radiated with the glow from the morning sun.
her beauty was exquisite, it was told in tales and
heard in the songs of bards home and beyond, and
every man and maiden watched her amorously when
she walked in the garden.
But there's was one who coveted her from the
shadows,
and all day long he slithered through her path.
For he desired to be close to her.
But her heart belonged to a certain farmer who
brought her flowers and kissed her feet with love.
All That You Are
You're KINDNESS.
You're HEAVEN.
You're BEAUTY.
you're EVERYTHING the whole world isn't.
Your eyes are shaped like stars, and your soul is a
cornucopia overflowing with constant kindness.
Sometimes I wish the world would treat you better.
So when you feel low
think about everything you are
and how beautiful it is to be you.
3000
I found the one who calms my soul,
she's 3000 times purer than gold.
She smiles so beautifully,
and every time she cries she melts my heart.
There's nothing else I could wish for than eternity
with her.
A Place For Us
And when heaven says
"No"
Remember,
we still have
each other,
curled up away, somewhere in forever.
If she was a movie
I would spend eternity
watching every scene.
Empty
She was taught to let go
and let the demons in.
So they came by thousands,
marching through her heart, each taking a piece.
Till there was no more.
nothing left to give.
Your eyes are made of dark crystals, and your mortal
parts remind my feeble soul why we were never meant
to be holy.
Rosas y mentiras
She cries when she misses you
And even at night, she thinks of you.
She knows what you do when you are away.
You lay comfortably in the sheets of another,
and you come home each morning with roses,
and you kiss her with those unfaithful lips.
And for the one-hundredth time, you lie to her
When you tell her she means the world to you.
And for a short while, she believes you.
In absurdity, she tries to see a perfect world with you.
Even when her heart tells her to leave.
Paper Heart
She left me
With only a spot of ink and paper.
So I wrote down my feelings
into words,
chapters and verses.
The birth of bad poetry
from a poet so broken
he made ink from tears,
and words from a paper heart.
Silent Words
Words I hoped to tell you but could never find the
courage to say,
and a little more for the times you needed me to act,
I never meant to be so passive.
I always thought I could shout those words,
Like the writer who always knows what to say on
paper but he loses his words,
when he's with you.
Only when he seeks for his word desperately,
do they fade.
And with a stare into your eyes, they become more
silent in peaceful unison
Even when she breaks
she breaks beautifully
I'll forever be indebted to her
For the way she loved me
Precious
Every time I close my eyes
I
See
You
You are now more frequent than a nightmare,
Your beautiful silhouette hunts me in the dark
And your last words are brightly lit in my
hippocampus,
Burning brighter than the sun ever did.
I used to think the world was more beautiful
When I saw it through your eyes
But now with your absence, it became void,
lifeless.
And now an aching dome of emptiness resides in my
heart.
On the places, you used to be.
Has life always been this empty?
Finding Heaven
I don't think I'll ever find
heaven.
I've wandered too deeply
into the dark.
To a place where
the past holds me in
a cage, forever to wander
in solitude,
undeserving of the love you give me.
But If you should ever decide to reach out to me,
I will find a way out of this cage.
My Notes on the extraordinary phenomenon
called Chroma.
The earth
wore her color
In green,
Her smile was bliss with cherry blossom
that flourished ever so brightly
in the sunset.
Her lips were red as roses
and her eyes I watched,
glittered with hazel
as she stares excitedly at the sun.
She was lovely, even the waters rattled
excitedly as they rushed to meet her.
Flowing joyfully beneath her feet.
I could say that the spectacular view of the ocean was
golden, but I watched a girl
dance gracefully around the shore
with true love in her eyes.
She was nothing but beautiful.
October
Today,
I saw a girl walk by in October winds
and a golden sunset
more beautiful than rose petals,
I was torn between heaven
And the dark places between her eyes.
Love Of My Youth
Amor de mi Juventud,
Before the night comes.
Before the darkness takes hold of us.
I'll smile in content
knowing that I loved you
like no one ever did before.
And if we are allowed a little more
time my dear,
I will go on loving you
till the last star fades away.
Flowers beneath the spring
You were born from a falling star
That purple thing across my crestfallen sky
I don't know what to call you
You seem familiar, but yet a stranger
My heart feels nostalgic for you
but yet you do not know me.
In your eyes there's is a feeling of lost between them.
If only I could show you who you are,
It's like our souls could almost touch.
Between these fields of chrysanthemum,
you were the spring and I, your flowers.
He promised to love her beyond the innumerable stars in the
night sky.
Till they were old and senile, uncomprehending of the
world around them and the aches in their bones, but one thing will
always remain, he knew he would always remember the girl with the
beautiful heart.
And Then There Was Us
I knew you.
You were the truth that lurked within the darkness.
The voice that said, "go I am with you."
And when nobody knew me, you were there.
I wish to hold you now,
until time fades away.
Until nothingness
erases what we were,
and even then I wish
to love you in oblivion.
I’ll Be There
The warmth of the truth will comfort you my beautiful little bird,
it'll fix your pretty wings
until you can learn to fly again.
And I'll love you as heavily as I can,
through light and darkness,
through stormy rains,
and the plight of winters sorrow.
Through it all, my love will be with you.
Like lights rays streaming down the mornin' sun,
I'll always be there to chase away the darkness.
The Theory Of Love
I
To live peacefully,
to fight for the love
one deserves
remains the purest of pursuits.
II
You can never be wrong when it comes to love.
You may be disheartened
from many hurdles
but never wrong.
IlI
Love has existed throughout
History in many forms.
Tonight
It seeks me out
here, in you.
For You
My dearest whomever,
I can only find happiness when I know you read these words,
Words I've written at your behest,
So you can find comfort when I'm away-
Feel me through the pages like
a hand reaching to your soul.
Providing love in proxy through stars
from miles unknown.
I wish to tell you about my journeys
And wishes I made for both of us.
your longing
keeps my soul burning like firewood
lit at midnight,
and I wish to see you now more than ever.
I still hope you think of me as much as I do you,
For in time, I hope we'll be together,
like waves colliding with the shore.
I'm Sorry
My mistake dear girl was letting think you didn't deserve this love.
Your existence close to mine was
a mirac
le, and yet I was unwilling to admit it.
You deserve an ocean and a galaxy of love,
but not with me.
I will only steal the light.
And break your heart.
So From here, I must depart.
I hope to love you better in the next life my dearest sweetheart.
From here to the stars
If I didn't love you, I would be
a bag full of broken bones waiting to dream.
Your beauty lies beyond the threshold of
any immoral sin.
Taste this beauty as you draw the poet out my lips.
By holy declaration
and pompous orientation,
from here to the stars
my heart will choose to love you.
Always
Love In Dark Places
"I don't expect to find perfection"
She said.
I only need love in dark places,
and you do too.
I know because
My soul is deeply blue,
and your soul
screams out
just the same.
She is a dark-skinned princess.
The juju woman that lit
my heart with an eternal flame.