Tag: love
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Love comes in many forms
Love Hate Attention Envy Pursuit Space and loneliness An empty heart for holding your tears A friend a teacher a brother A stranger on the beach who will ask you to stay until the stars come out past sunset A faraway friend in another city another world another plane of genius A brother who died…
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Be calm
Be calm and silent my friend I know it is confusing and dark To touch a promise of an eternal love But to not deserve it I think you are brave to come this far without help I am not your soulmate or unique to you I can’t be everything you want I am simply…
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Tranquillo
Tranquillo Y silencio Mi amigo Yo se que es confuso y oscuro Para tocó una promesa de amor eternal Pero no merecerlo Creo que eres valiente para llegar hasta aquí sin ayuda No soy tus alma gemela y no soy único para ti No puedo ser todos lo que quieres soy simplemente una mujer Una…
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Love and Money
Love vs money Money vs love Star-crossed lovers Friends, enemies You came to me when I least expected it Inconveniently even Kings and beggars We were thieves stealing love and time and money we didn’t have Legends for a time That’s now passed I wish you would’ve given it up to beg on the side…
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The Architect
I believed happiness was a quiet shy thing Like the debut of the first red leaf of fall Like hearing a busker sing your favourite song at city center Or a impulsive fleeting thing Like a flash of pleasure in the night No, Happiness is everlasting And enduring And determined And calculated and measured and…
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El amor siempre es nuevo
Tengo problemas para hablarte Como la sirenita parece que no puedo decirte mi verdad Y me preguntas una y otra vez, cuál es mi nombre Mi nombre es novedad Como la cresta brillante de una nueva ola rompiéndose El silencio me abruma ahora Un silencio de saber Lo que vendrá después Lo que parece imposible…
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Love is always new
I have trouble speaking to you Like the little mermaid I can’t seem to tell you my truth And you ask me again and again, what is my name My name is novelty Like the sparkling crest of a new wave breaking The silence overwhelms me now A silence of knowing What will come next…
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Costa Rica
Costa Rica had no standing army Everyone asks me, “how do they defend themselves?” How do I defend myself? I think they’re teaching me how to defend myself without fighting
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Empty
Uror et in vacuo pectore regnat amor I burn, and love reigns in my empty heart Is it empty or full? My heart is empty in the way a cup is only useful when empty
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Beautiful
They say the most difficult times in our lives, when we look back on them, strikes us as beautiful Loving my brother was hard It was hard when he threatened suicide It was hard when he went to the hospital It was hard when he threatened to kill me But it was love Wondrous, powerful,…