A Union

I could not go back home because of politics,
but I wanted a union with a woman from home.

So, I asked my family for advice, and they
recommended an arranged union. They chose.

and I accepted. We did not have a chance to
meet. We just talked by phone and decided
to move forward.

You hoped for love to arrive, once something
arranged by others who love you.

In my case, the rose did not bloom, we were so
different in our way, in our manners.

Had children, and raised them together, the
result almost perfect.

years later the loneliness arrived in a big house
with five rooms

an attempted suicide to escape from inside a
circleof life, no success. The rest is history.

 

Sunflowers

I look at the sky, full of sunflowers
A new day, to see the beautiful colors
Smell of lavender, oh life is so different today
I still remember our last kiss in a farm
Next to a river, far from people that
Are lost in their daily effort, to fill their lives with the latest iPhone
To send another meaningless message to the friends
: That they do not have time to see
my friend, today I will drink poems
Until another morning when
I am drunk of metaphors, similes
Until I am full of life, and can touch the stars in the farthest galaxy

Ten years ago.

Write a poem from the point of view of yourself

What is this life about, why I feel so wounded, so exhausted?

Shadow of my old depression and the attempted suicide?

Pain of an arranged marriage gone astray?

Desire of kissing somebody for love?

Fighting for justice, for the rights of people around

Listening to stories of people a in an uber car,

Sleeping in the coldest room, in a huge house?

Waiting for my kids to graduate from college,

Desire to start anew, searching for a new love?

Feeling a new depression looming in the horizon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I want to run away

I want to run away to a place that I can hide,

In a desert where I can touch softness of sand,

In a forest where I can hug the animals passing bye,

In a coffee farm where I can grow my own plants,

On the top of a mountain to count all the stars,

In an ocean where I can live with the mermaids,

I want to run away to a place that I can hide.