dreams

DREAMS OF FEAR

Close your eyes to your doubts
and open up your heart.
Let your dreams guide the thoughts
that are now tearing you apart.
Don’t discard those illusions in life,
once fear possesses you whole.
Submit yourself willingly to its force,
let it melt…form a part of your soul.

Let it bathe your spirit, caress your senses,
intoxicate your soul…leave you reeling.
Let it undulate and slowly work its way
to the very depths of your being.
Only then can you measure love,
happiness, joy, the value of mirth…
Only then will the substance of your dreams gain merit,
attain their true worth.

Such is the way to master this erosive,
ever-consuming power of fear,
Learn to possess it, control it,
to cherish it, learn how to hold it dear.
If we can overcome the pain, the anguish
that love so often leaves behind,
What is so special about fear,
that we run away whenever our door is does find?

Juan/97

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MOON

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EVERLASTING NIGHT

If all would lead their lives in love's decree,
then hatred and mistrust would never be.
But soon as once is set our little light,
then must we sleep one everlasting night.

Let peace proclaim the love of endless age,
while mind and heart continue in their fruitless rage;
for fools do live and waste their little light,
and seek with endless pain one everlasting night.

Juan/83

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LOST IN THE CROWD

THE SUBSTANCE OF REALITY

Those images that surge within my mind,
Which life to logic and confusion give,
Are all unleashed when stars touch skies divine,
For through the black cascade do all thoughts live…

My mind becomes the core of life itself,
From which take birth the essence and the breath
Of all impressions past and present felt,
Which come daybreak -extinct of life- join death.

And thus my lack of consciousness reflects
The inner anguish and the agony,
Which so the common intercourse infects,
Subsisting on it’s source…anxiety.

It’s dreams, the substance of reality
Which brings me back to such tranquility.

Juan/80

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FOR I HAVE LIVED TODAY

God has wisely hid from human sight
the dark decrees of pending fate,
and sown the seeds in depths of night,
where mortals search to soon and fear too late.

Enjoy the present smiling hour
and put it out of fortune’s power.
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
he, who can call today his own.
He who secure within can say…
Tomorrow do your worst, for I have lived today.

Be good or bad, fiendish or divine,
the joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power,
but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

Juan/84

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THE ROTTEN BLEACH THEIR FORM

Moral-Moral-Moral
Moral-Moral-Moral

Stenchy circus
swordsmen
dictating us norms
of behavior,lies
swarms of good intentions,
but in the end
fallacies and lowly passions.

Negotiators of rags
executives of rope
twisted holy men
household cockroaches
directors of failure
programmers of foulness.

All of you.......
Are castrating
that small eternity
that is today.

You can all go
with your stupid fears
to the eternal hell
of your own bullshit.

Ruven/97

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ENLIGHTENED

ENLIGHTENED
WE ARE.
CONNECTED
WITH THE
DIS-TANCE.
ASCENDING SPARK
OF
FAITH!

(Flavia/97)

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SOL - ITUDE

WE MUST GIVE BACK
THE TIME
TO THE EARTH.
IT'S TIME TO DELIVER.
RETURN - ROOTS
AGE - LIGHT
AGE OF THE SUN
SOLITUDE...

(Flavia/97)

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THINK OF ME

-I think of you from daybreak
just as I open my eyes.
-I think of you,
during the whole course of the day,
you are my comfort
in the hardest moments.
-I think of you,
in my dreams I see you
and rest knowing that you exist,
I know you......and you are near.
-I think of you,
you are my whole existence,
the balance in my life.

I love you in the strictest sense
of the word…
- I give everything asking for nothing in return-

Ruven/97

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YOU

IF WITH MY HANDS I COULD TOUCH YOUR LAUGHTER,
IF WITH MY EYES I COULD SEE YOUR SOUL,
IF WITH MY MOUTH I COULD KISS YOUR STRENGTH,
IF WITH MY EARS I COULD HEAR YOUR BODY,
IF WITH MY NOSE I COULD SMELL YOUR VERSES,
I WOULD BE HAPPY.

BUT MY HANDS NEVER SAW YOU…
MY EYES NEVER TOUCHED YOU…
MY MOUTH NEVER HEARD YOU…
MY EARS NEVER SMELLED YOU…
MY NOSE NEVER KISSED YOU…

EVEN SO,
CAN BARRIERS BE PLACED ON LOVE?
CAN WORDS BE USED TO DENY
WHAT YOUR HEART SCREAMS?

IF YOU MUST FLY, FLY
HIGH, MIGHTY AND HAPPY,
BUT DON'T DENY
THAT SOMEONE LOVES YOU,
BUT DON'T DENY
THAT YOU ARE IN ACCORD.

Paco (June 97...after the storm)

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THE PHOENIX

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BROTHER SUN


YOU RISE
LIKE THE SUN…
-RADIANT-
YOUR WARMTH
CARESSING
MY SKIN.

RAYS OF PENETRATING
TENDERNESS,
EMANATING
FROM A SOURCE
ENDLESS…
ALWAYS
STEADFAST.

Juan/97

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I FEAR

I fear, with a smile, to end your seriousness
I fear, with my lips, to dry yours
I fear, with a sigh, to wither your love
I fear, with my touch, to make you numb
I fear losing grace
I fear shattering your sweetness
I fear loving you
I fear falling in love with you
I fear losing your love
I fear your absence
I fear not seeing you
I fear not hearing you
I fear losing you
I fear not being loved
I fear, only fear, not having you.

Jorge 06/25/97

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