LOVE SONG (1)

(needs music)

If you're far away

I don't want to miss you

but there are new leaves

growing on the tree,

if you are near

I just want to look into your eyes

and dance because

you make me feel days of fresh rain on my skin.

If you are close I tremble

if you embrace me the sun shines,

and when you leave

my house turns blue

and my body disappears

in the noise of the street.

I try to remember you

you are somewhere

but I can't

even though I haven't met you yet, but

there are new leaves growing on the tree,

I know you're around.

© Adrian

Translated by Nina Serrano

17 ways to say the same (from 1 to 4)

-1-

What is real?

A hug is real

the taste of lost kisses

is not

Time is not real

desire is real.

When you look at me it's real

if you touch me, I don't know if it's real

when you leave, I don't want it to be real.

What is real?

Lying down on my bed

is real

listening to the silence of  dawn

seems unreal

and in the distance the stars

giving each other kisses

that is so real.

-2-

Suddenly

a door appears and I open it

I see a  huge room lit up

and a table with all the objects

I've lost in life.

A watch, a pair of shoes,

a comb, a ring,

a heart and a hug.

I must choose just one and leave.

The watch will be good for not wasting time,

the hug to feel loved,

the comb to look presentable,

the ring to feel engaged,

the heart to keep having palpitations,

and the pair of shoes to walk around the world

that is what I want

so I wear them and I leave running

searching for more doors,

and to see if I can find you.

-3-

Sadness

is not a state of mind

it is an accident

caused by

the loss of some hugs

and unconsciously humming

some songs

we ought to forget.

-4-

Sometimes it's good

to take time to caress

the skin of wind

the water of wrinkles

the birthmarks of fire

the secrets of the damp earth.

Sometimes it's good

to take time to caress
your own face.

© Adrián

17 poems in progress

Eye

I am seated in my white chair

watching the moon grow

It is as if today

finally

you are looking at me.

You are the enigmatic face of night

you closed one eye

and with the other you described

a landscape of hugs

sharing the light of a dream

where the rocks are birds

and pain

is the color of a new flower.

Eye that illuminates the aroma

of tranquility

bird eye

hug eye

kiss eye

that my mouth needs

and your mouth wants to give secretly

I want to receive the moon smoothly

on your lips

and feel

I've known you

a lifetime.

© Adrián

And what if....

And what if

when I close the curtains

behind the window

everything disappears

and when I am sleeping

my heart stops to save beats

((( Crazy you are crazy

a voice tells me

and I answer

don't act bored

you taught me to be crazy))) 



And what if

when I think of red

flowers grow in your garden

and you paint your lips

and if I think of blue

by surprise a tear falls

down your check and you smile

thinking of me
What about…?

© Adrián

Metamorphosis

Now I am a rabbit

I jump the fence landing nearby

and I fall into a deep dream like Alice in that country…

Now I am a snail

in the restless ear of  a girl

who thinks she hears the waves waves waves and in the distance someone says goodbye…

Now I am a butterfly

emerging from the depth of a tree

they have cut off my head, replaced my branches with flapping wings…

Now I am an empty glass

the water waiting for the fire that doesn’t even light

the wet earth that stays dry, the air that quickly dishevels your hair…

Every moment presses me

transforms me blurs me and reconstructs me

every moment is enough to die a thousand times to be reborn without noticing  …

Now I am Adrian

5 feet 11 inches black graying hair brown eyes

but only for a moment because there is some one or something more waiting in the metamorphosis line…

© Adrian

Trans: Nina Serrano, 2014