Month: July 2003

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    Heaven… I´m in heaven….


    Or sort of that. I have just got home after some great hours spent on what I think was a good step. As usual, I wont be too specific about what happened, but today I did something important for my future, and important for whatever is good in my life. Right now, after having such a pleasant afternoon, getting home and thinking of the changes is bliss. Nothing is changed yet, but the step taken was indeed relevant.


    I´m more optimistic than I ever sound. Im happier now to realize I didnt not give up on myself, neither on what i have always believed to be true. My faith in God and the time I spend studying His word have also allowed me to look at and for different directions while I thought I was lost. Now I know who the light in my darkess is, and now… today… I know I gave the first step on something really great


    And i´m glad. really am… I´m now expecting to see my friend in Curitiba, and have some fun enjoying the cold weather while having some peace of mind. Im so excited right now, that I can barely write… Ideas dont come in order… I may write in Portuguese, then. Who cares??? Im not thinking….Just feeling… Great!


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  • Bar


    It’s raining again. I rather like rain, especially the sort lately. Thunder-lightening a clash, trees falling, soaking wet. There is such beauty in nature’s violence, like an empirical formula of the unknown suddenly unlocked. São Paulo´s weather is as fickle as my mood, and I may just be starting to appreciate that. If I ever really do pursue an education abroad, this will be what I dearly miss. Nighttime during daytime, when everything is dead and alive at the same time. When the earth and the sky light up in one split second by a brilliant white flash, I like to see the world in that one second. Then there is the wind. I am a wind spirit, and wherever it goes, I follow. I am the freest then, during storms, when wind moans and tears and draw her patternless swirls upon the earth. Muy ermosa mi tierra… If my life were to imitate a thunderstorm, I would be perfectly content. It is so much more precious, so brief, and leaves such an aftertaste…the sweet smell of renewed earth under my nose.

    Of course, my life cannot imitate nature of any sort. Such analogies shall be left to gods and people of reverence, certainly not my banal life( I know I may be told off for this comment ). It is a life I am content with, however, yeah. Life has been good. My Spanish has greatly improved lately due to mass amount of Spanish music I´ve been listening to. The dictionary and Babel are my frequently used bookmarks. Bless them. My English is also getting better, having been forcing myself to read and speak it much more than my own language. My brand new friend Liliana ( and current American Lit teacher-at least until I hand in all my assingnments for teh test… ) has been helping me a lot. I sometimes get really amazed by how easy it is for me to learn languages. I should be less lazy and put my mind to something in that field. But not now… This is vacation time now… My writing sucks lately. I haven’t actually written in a long time. There are so many things to attend to and learn and do and experience. I just haven’t got time. Damn.


    Im traveling to Curitiba  (check more here)next week. Two  friends and I will go there for the weekend, and Im expecting to have some fun in the cold city I´ll try to post photos this time…. Now I need some rest. Yes, and dream


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  •  Little drama
    A bonny night, I step outside and gaze
    Head up and stare into space
    Where the stars burn quietly with grace
    And think of whatever reason of your face
    But what’s this, suddenly about my feet,
    Rubbing my angles?
    Unusually affectionate
    Startling from his small thunder
    Is love he wants, I wonder?
    His presence somehow makes the night complete.



  • Handsome, Dangerous, Pretty , ugly, awesome, does it matter?.

    A name we love to give those we find attractive. Be they male or female. I know, a strange way to start my entry today. But I do have a point I promise. We tend to look at those for the outer core of there being, nothing for what lays beneath. We first judge those based on appearance, looks, the way there hair sets down, is it nice and neat, is it drawn out, messy… What? Either way, we search for the perfect mate. The perfect one to claim as your own.
    But what would you do once you have that person. The most perfect out core to what you are wanting. Do you know how they would act, talk. If are they smart or not?
    I have noticed these are the things we get judged on. Yes, they suck for most people… Unless you are the most perfect.
    If I could pick whom I want, to have by my side, things would only get better from there. The emotional factor, the thoughts, the simple fact that he is the one I know I would be truly happy with. But needless to say, it does not matter. Not everyone gets their wants, their needs… But we can dream can’t we?


  • a girl like me


    When people ask what “a girl like me” is doing without a boyfriend, I never know quite what to say. It’s really irritating. First of all, what is a girl like me? But let’s not even get into that. What is wrong with me being on my own?


    I do want someone to cuddle with. Of course I like being told pretty things. I melt for a good kiss. A long late at night phone conversation with an intelligent, funny guy would make me believe in love again. Especially if he can come over after we hang up the phone. But, is a girl like me not as good as she could be if she doesn’t have any of that?


    Excuse me but I’m not half a person. What you are looking at is a whole person. I have a complete heart pumping life into everything I do. Passion is part of who I am and not just what’s produced when my body is caressed. When a guy walks into my life, he doesn’t have to complete me. I’d love it if he challenged, inspired and motivated me, but he doesn’t have to worry about half oranges. What is that?


    I want to give myself as a complete person to another whole person. Yes, I want to hopefully one day find someone who can handle all that I am. But for now, please, I beg of you, stop asking me what I’m doing without a steady boyfriend. The answer is this: I’m living.


    Perhaps your idea of a girl like me isn’t me at all.


    *ps: Entry inspired on conversation with some new friends… damn it sucked

  • : perhaps, perhaps
    Countless as this day may seem, beneath all these shattered dreams I hold within. My heart had been touched, and held, and broke, and there is nothing I can do to stop this repeated cycle. With as much as I hide from it, or hold onto what is right. I feel myself only letting go. Just so I don’t have to have the heartache once again. When everything seems so right, I tend to make it wrong. But then again, what else is new. I have yet to find answers, and yet to ask the right questions. Though I hide in fear of what the answers may be. I tend to find myself more curios to seek what may hurt, then to seek what may be great.
    Have you ever say back and remembered some of the strangest things. Such as your first kiss, or first love making experience. Or perhaps about the simple things as your first car, or the time you graduated. If you have graduated. No matter how I look at all of these things, I tend to find what went wrong, as to what went right. Though some of those memories tend to put a smile on my face, those sad thoughts still take over my soul.
    In a time of need, I don’t find myself running to my family, it seems as if I am running further from them. When my life seems to be uplifted, I tend to shatter it. Dreams I have, more then one, more then two. I have plenty of them. I picture the last parts of them over and over again. Though the answers on how to reach there seem to never come into my vision. Asking my self, over and over again, if I am disorientated, and the answer always come to me as a yes. There is never a no with any of my questions that have to do with me. Why? I do not know.
    A love I cannot have, tears me apart. To try and bring him closer, I will eventually just push him away. Even though things, seem wonderful, rather we are friends, lovers, or in some kind of relationship. He will most likely find himself hurt. So why does he even bother. Rather three inches in front of me, or 2000 miles away. I will just end up seeking something more, more to fulfill my undesired dreams, trying to search for a way to make them better. Trying to get closer, until hopefully one day, I too can find contentment with just one. One to hold my every waking need in his hands, and me to do the same. I try so very hard, to keep the ones I love close, though it’s much easier to push them away. Just so that they wont feel my hurtful lashes.
    So this is what I think I am, but others tell me different. A New Year yes, so perhaps, I should change the way I think. Perhaps instead of making something that is positive, negative. I should try to hold on to the positive, and push the entire negative away. Instead of keeping my soul hidden, perhaps opening it to those that are close to me. But then again. I said perhaps, never said it would happen….
    Have you ever closed your eyes and heard a whisper, to come to find it’s just a voice in your head? How about mix matched colors in a painting to find out its one of your own. The color of meaning, the color of life. So my questions those dare not have answers. So many things left to unfold the truth just yet.
    Have you ever lie in a field of grass, wondering if the flowers would ever bloom?
    I have reached out to the point where I thought my grasp would meet. I have pulled and turned the mirage that slips through my fingers. Yet, I still try to take what’s not fully mine.
    I allow my lids to come down over eyes of amber and honey. Kissing them with a long extension. How could one be held, how can one be touched, and yet still feel as if it was nothing?
    Is the air something that will have the best of me? Not let me love, not let me be loved in return. How could the man and women be so different yet still so the same? It’s like looking into a mirror. Seeing the perfect reflection of a man, to only spark the flame of beautiful women. With most I see it not happening, ever, letting there self, fall to “peaces”. As to picking them self back up off the ground.
    I hold matter over times; I hold real over fake, I hold a sparkle of interest in my own heart.
    Have you ever captured a falling star in-between your palms, to come to find out, its a fire fly? Have you moved a single strain of hair from your eyes, so that you can see everything in a different light?
    Funny how most things work, as if no one is there to help you, as if no one really cares.
    But have you ever, felt your heart drop, felt your heart bleed, and felt your heart patter anytime someone speaks his or her name. Have you ever, just allowed your self to love? A secret not a whisper to a soul. A forbidden love that just cannot be. Isn’t life funny??



  • Death of a Lotus
    The first petal picked has little meaning to none. Though for some odd reason, you smirk watching the now lifeless color of red drop to the floor. Little is your thought, about what you have just done, letting life die by the pluck of your fingertips? Even though it was not in thought, not realized, not even put to be evil hearted. You have already done it.
    Yet again, you pull another petal from the lotus. That smirk of your fades a little, realizing just then. There you are upset with someone, something. Realizing that you have yet to fully find out what is upsetting you, making your smile turn to a frown.
    With the next one taken from the life filled stem, dropping it to the floor. This time your eyes follow it down, locking to the swishing petal as if it really nothing, but for one split moment its everything…
    All memories of your past flashing before your eyes. Good, bad, what ever they are.. You remember them once again. For whatever reason, you try your best to push them from your mind, let them fall to the ground like the petals you keep dropping from the rose. Not saying a word, not saying a thing, not saying a thought.
    Though it is you, that could imagine pain, hurt, warmth, all of it. It is you who has felt it, touched it, and craved it. But yet, you find yourself asking why? Why me? What did I do now? What can I do to fix it? What can I do to make it better? When the only answer is HONESTY… People hate being lied to.. People hate protection. But yet, no matter where you turn, someone is always doing it.
    When will I know if someone really cares, I mean honestly cares? When will I get to feel the first hand experience of love, life, touch, feelings, all of it? Or is it something that will always be a hopeless dream. A dream that I hope to one day never wake from.
    So now that you have made it to the final petal, you pause before plucking it off the stem, close your eyes, and take a deep breath in. Why? Because you have just been hit with a bad case of reality. One that everyone try hard to avoid. Hidden secrets, tales, adventures, loves, friendships. I have never wanted something more, then my breath at this moment. Even though, that wont fix what has been broken, it will fix my frame of thought at that point, that moment, the very second.
    Now that it has finally hit…. Where do you go from here?

    SADNESS

    Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.

    The most melancholic day has come.
    The saddest of the year.
    Hear me, I am tired.
    My heart is sick and sad.
    From where the sun now stands,
    I will fight no more forever – I surrender.



  • TENDER LOVE AT MIDNIGHT

    The scars of life
    Run their thin fingers down
    The spines of the lovers.

    Midnight was a beautiful time, you softer shade of night,
    The moist minutes between memory and desire,
    The moonlight managing to shatter through
    Thin walls of syllables barely spoken, the nudity
    Of honest faces.
    The knuckles burn, brush a cheek.

    The bare miles of sun consume their tracks
    And fold into the bowels of night.

    When I came
    To the door, wouldn’t let me in,
    Words fading imperceptibly into a summer circle
    Where the suitors are kept waiting outside,
    Run back in for a brief sip of lemonade,
    Slipping out the door
    To lightly push them away
    With a token smile
    And an unspoken–thus, unreal–promises
    Of tomorrow’s fragile composure,
    A stability quite pretended.