1. There are feelings...
  You know what these feelings are like -
they never leave you
  from the moment of their inception
until...
  untill.. for ever...

They will go with you
 when you leave
this treacherous world...

And while you're still here...
  they lie down
- so deep,
   unchanged,
and no other feelings
  can take their place...


June 5, 2013


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2. Once again, dry leaves are rustling under my feet in the autumnal surf.
And the warm Sun sheds the last sweet grasses.
And Heaven and Earth seem to have reconciled...
Forgave the insults, the losses.
Or simply forgotten...
How I wish I could forget
everything that happened to me...

August 23, 1997


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3.  Faces on buildings.
   Mascarones.
   What else is there to say?
  
  Maybe a lot,
   maybe nothing...
  
  Sometimes
   you feel you don't wanna know
  anything about them...
  
  
  They're so beautiful...
   Isn't that enough...
  
  
  
  
  Jan. 20, 2020


4. The Sunset...
Yes, after all, I was born at Sunset.
All day long - bustle, and suddenly...
Quieter... The Spirit's Inaudible Sound
And the soul straightens in mental stature,
Closing its circle of prayer.

So the soul goes out -
"Very gently, painlessly..."
(as my mother told me)
Into the world of the troubled Earth,
"As if it slipped out..."
To freedom? To captivity?
Closing its circle - 
So it will go.
I'm afraid to write, inopportunely predicting
The Exit into Eternity - my final Flight.
I dare not say what I know.
I don't know.
But I was born at Sunset,
and soon
The Sun will set behind the Earth for the night.


June 3, 1998