2024-03-10

vanishing point

beyond the river
and into distance
between us, far and fleeting
the universe still expands

when i squint to windward
we are all beholden here
to space, and time
and our hearts

witness or master
the great divide
distance by longing
to overcome when overcome

ride the solar winds
take me any place where you
unlike these tracks that never cross
one day we'll meet again

(2024)

2024-02-18

together, brightly

where i melted away from your sigh
every second a perfect dream
now a memory, still agleam
together we sailed the sky

in the half-light i basked in your smile
every word said by you
enchanting but true
a new tale, amazing and wild

where i saw your reflection in steel
in the joy that you brought
sometimes breath barely caught
all the things you made me feel

in the half-light we savored and soared
caresses gentle and warm
swept away like a storm
headfirst into worlds unexplored

where the wind still whispers your name
we mixed like the galaxies
i can hear your melodies
together, brightly, we stood aflame

(2024)

2024-02-11

speechless

one hundred
forty thousand
four hundred

so fast they
where have you
how did it even

from here to now
cannot stop but
until again we

all at once all the time
can it really
wow

(2024)

2024-02-04

piranha

tão ousada quanto você
como vivendo o sonho fogoso
por favor, seja minha mestra hoje
me torno a piranha, hehehe

talvez um gosto bom você tem
em breve vou comer você também

eles não podem nos ferir
vamos recuperar agora
fica uma palavra potente
me chamo a piranha, hehehe

talvez um gosto bom você tem
em breve vou comer você também

me acorde, querida
me leve, me molde

me seduza, bonita
me educe, me liberte

sem vergonha, amiga
cheguei para reivindicar

talvez um gosto bom você tem
em breve vou comer você também

(2024)

2024-01-29

damocles

in fire and light
crimson shining the blade
by dawn we shall be unmade
as long since foretold
and by your hand
we end as we once began

as winds and times must change
the fates' whims rearrange
and steal that which we crave
to drown it in the waves

from silver threads untied
into the dark divide
an ocean deep and red
where all the tears are shed

in fire and light
crimson shining the blade
by dawn we shall be unmade
as long since foretold
and by your hand
we end as we once began

it wants but cannot be
what would i give to see
through whispers in the mist
on water moonlight kissed

like fading battle scars
and riddles in the stars
an insight please bestow
but we shall never know

in fire and light
crimson shining the blade
by dawn we shall be unmade
as long since foretold
and by your hand
we end as we once began

forbidden magic words
at saga's ending heard
vain dreams of yesteryear
shall hold no power here

let me behold your sight
before truth stains the night
the dreaded spell is cast
and we are free at last

in fire and light
crimson shining the blade
by dawn we shall be unmade
as long since foretold
and by your hand
we end as we once began

(2024)

2024-01-09

pode ser

fly, fly to the raven's nest
where we become undone or one
how could i ever not succumb
gently caressed by words most mesmerizing

pode ser tudo
pode ser nada
pode ser nós

what is yet a message in a bottle
be it candle or blaze
i will burn in your gaze
drowned in the infinities of your eyes and

pode ser para sempre
pode ser o destino
pode ser só por hoje

what cannot be said will be wept
but all can be dared
because i prayed this word - i want

o seu sorriso e a sua voz
o seu toque e a sua alma
são os mais encantadores
sem você, estou com saudade

(2024)

2023-12-19

december (the ending is not)

wide eyes transformed into quicksand
like black holes bending the dim light
and an instinct that forced me to stay

last year's hallways resounding still hollow
the cold lights, the glass nights, the circles
in a wasteland outstretched for miles

irresistible choices were fated
in a story of dark twists and left turns
for the one door i could not but close

so you slept, you hid and still clung to
a fairy tale turned into nightmare
not the life that was ripe to reclaim

of a sudden, however, you came to
something gave, and the floodgates thrown open
of a sudden you showed up alive

to windward now facing the unknown
this year of rebirth whispers wisdom
leave to die that which left you to die

(2023)

2023-10-29

to shape the void

once more, against the cold winds riding
all too familiar sights abound
once more into the abyss smiling
cocoon, swallow me gently

for the dream ends where the dream's ends
let me sink into the dreamless
and dissolve into a shapeless
where it smiles back at me

whisper softly, sweet empty
whisper softly and smile
travel time now, sweet empty
dissolve, dissolve, dis-


remember once upon the tiles
soaked fingertips seeking in vain

remember the wish once forbidden
no one would ever, ever know

remember how impossible
that image as painful as vivid

remember the vision, remember
wake up and give it shape


wake up, wake up, whisper softly
breathe in, breathe out, coalesce
let me cry now, sweet empty
now you smile back at me

(2023)

2023-10-09

on the tides

when roiling seas throw waves too tall
encroaching on the land
to rise and clash outside that wall
unfaltering you stand

upon a sturdy fortress built
to last through ages gone
but water knows not grudge nor guilt
in time it must move on

no monument shall yet outlive
those forces of the deep
to shut them off - what would i give
such turmoil do they reap

left writhing, drowning, cold and weak
alone in all but name
the words i must not ever speak
i pray them all the same

their push and pull become a theme
in vain i still implore
because i want, i have to scream
what is it even for

and yet - i see how unfulfilled
it's written in your eyes
consumed by yearning never stilled
you, too, look to the skies

(2023)

2023-09-08

alice IX (rubicon)

underneath a burning why
and searing, aching blue-like sky
to shallow depths we cast the die

with the sound of a match gently stricken
by the river mouth, a squandered chance
by the river mouth we shall not dance
on tiptoe over scorching sand

why ever would the heat abate
what little passion left irate
at mere behest it cannot sate

convulsing empty, lost and charred
last embers of a wistful heart
for death spells a belated card

with the sound of a match gently stricken
by the river mouth washed ashore
by the river mouth, nevermore
on tiptoe over scorching sand

with the sound of a match gently stricken
by the river mouth, all shades of keen
behold the ocean - sweet, sweet gasoline
wake up and smell the ashes

(2023)

2023-08-31

minotaur

around and into corners stretched
once upon a footnote etched

with battered fingers searching blind
to piece apart a listless mind

trace wall to wall through every room
divine the words that spell yet doom

monster wretched, ask not why
loathsome, lonesome, 'tis but i

sentenced to the end of days
cast into that endless maze

relentless terror built from stone
like glass i stand to break alone

last vestiges of futile grace
lost into darkness giving chase

thus enter hero, mesmerize
the forlorn fate to finalize

down to strike me, strong and deft
relieve me of what fight still left

(2023)

2023-08-08

snapshots of a new era

outside i pace in the scent of night
the wasteland lies dark, alien and homely
from siren songs to remind me of prison
in the hallway of tears i can hide for a while

a sound, a touch, an angel's voice
golden words drop like the weight
swift fingers mark ascension's countdown
and on your face a hint of understanding

warm wind paints today in soap bubbles and dust
i watch the beginnings of many a story
over and over we turn the wheel of fortune
against all odds we have each come full circle

from the depths rings the bringer of dawn
in a stark contrast between two worlds
thus here i stand - the known unknown
the open book, the phoenix risen

where gods of the ancients still walk amongst us
a spectacle of vibrant color we all become
let us spread wings and fly together
witness me dancing with the greats

(2023)

2023-07-07

pretty little puzzle pieces

my tendency for the allegorical
historical never merely metaphorical
ideas best unstructured and yet categorical
the question marks us answers not rhetorical

i'm digging for some pretty little buried treasure
do i have to spell out my displeasure
hammer it home for good measure
y'all only ever listen at your leisure

with a notoriety for shocking impiety
in bold strokes you paint us a society
no room for desperately much-needed variety
just rigid caricatures of our anxiety

always synthetic and a bit pathetic
thin line between apathetic and frenetic
let's talk memetic, call it, if you will, poetic
neither hypothetic nor prophetic

meanwhile you got no time for archaeology
refuse to see the extent of totality
and maybe, just maybe, you owe me an apology
not some weak-ass tautology delivered at my eulogy

(2023)

2023-06-21

day 846

i drew a bridge into the sand
your catalyst
my sacrifice
we only do what we must

everywhere you would step but across
out of sight
out of line
out of your goddamned mind

with words like thousand needles
how deep you cut
how long i bleed
together we shall drain all blood of meaning

let us not embrace before the grand collapse
and then it falls
and when we fall
one day you will understand the gravity

we raised glasses to a fragile peace
here's to our time
here's to the end
now feel wind scatter the remains

(2023)

2023-06-13

train of thought / masquerade

once upon a whisper not a shout
customizable bore and sacrificed fear
utterly bland like all the rest here
gotta check it out get it checked out
so anyway here's music for sore ears

derail, derail (to no avail)
let it slip, let it slip (just a little bit)
gotta run, gotta run (the dance is on)

when trains collide the safest place
back at the back not back on track
and just in case enchase this phrase
it sounds like martian ack ack ack
so anyway go back to outer space

such potential tap, tap, tap
(just a bit, just a bit)
give me prizes, clap, clap, clap
(let it slip, let it slip)

on stakes as high as are as dee
makes all things always out to be
like snails impaled once more curtailed
i ran and slipped again derailed
so anyway just a fairytale

(the obscure experience of being
so well-adjusted and -behaved
that no one ever ever everest
from the highest mountain to
the deepest deep is deeper
you got to love this language
definitely a keeper more like
half a dozen in a trenchcoat
also that rhyme's an odd one out
so anyway where was i)

(2023)

2023-06-01

moonstruck

restless head keeps wandering, unable to think straight
stuck in circles, pondering, on that day fixate
one thought in endless loop, spell bound and caught in one fell swoop

was intrigued when you stood out, and all the signs were there
had no idea just how good, what magic in the air
now i can hardly wait, to seize this chance i shall not hesitate

on the spur of the moment, as time and spirits fly
let's just keep on going and rise up to the sky

in lasting high so captivating, i dare not say it loud
when every word found resonating that palace in the clouds
a kindred mind, it's almost spooky, inside those moony eyes
astonished how such dreamlike beauty can wake the butterflies

amazed just how immense, how fast it became clear
candidly, it's so intense i'm overwhelmed to tears
moonstruck, head over heels - i know, it sounds a bit surreal

on the spur of the moment, as time and spirits fly
let's just keep on going and rise up to the sky

in lasting high so captivating, i dare not say it loud
when every word found resonating that palace in the clouds
a kindred mind, it's almost spooky, inside those moony eyes
astonished how such dreamlike beauty can wake the butterflies

(2023)

2023-05-24

a little spicy

never got the hang in there
in a mad rush must this engage
run like a common thread the needle
poised on a blurry line lapse

rise and fall flat out of control
still got another more to wage
let's cut to the chase loose ends
add some flavor to will in the gaps

to hold me close off another chance
settle into that fast minute rage
it's bad form upon a pattern
just one or too spicy perhaps

(2023)

2023-05-23

omega

the black crystal cracks with a thundering roar
the face of the goddess is breached
refulgence behold in the quake of this voice
as the dream of divine love is reached

the word at the start, from the abyss deep down
begins pouring out into the night
nascent echoes of cosmos within blazing storms
an explosion of absolute light

soon future burns down from celestial heights
like thousands of suns glowing red
when stars are ignited in luminous spray
we shall suffer the tiniest death

souls shine resplendent from glistering heat
for the great oblivion we thirst
blinding the frenzy of spirits enrapt
to give rise to a new universe

(2023)

2023-05-09

pandora's box

on borrowed time rings hollow on a rollercoaster ride
she who rises from a state of drawn-out suicide
gradual, perpetual, the slow-burn casual trauma
somehow survived that subliminal epic drama

escaped from desperate recycled anonymity
renewed with energy, goes magnetic in proximity
unleashed with just the right dose of extravagant
perfectly defect - what fuels your bafflement

why sprinkle salt on wounds like gawking from the grandstand
not so funny throwbacks to some quirky wasteland
why make her hum those off-key tunes about a time that wasn't
eerily cheery requiem for disasters measured by the dozen

assurances don't matter if they shatter with impunity
proclaim it's all the same to you then retract quietly
why execute what disputes all she constitutes
inaction betrays the words you speak in absolutes

(2023)

2023-05-04

incandescent

a spectacle to celebrate
i'm grateful to participate
tonight grants me the circumstance
one glimpse into such radiance

long overdue and well deserved
next door your laughter, full of verve
and more than ever, soon at hand
first step to dream's fruition grand

however small, i did my bit
thus may you revel, fire lit
dots reconnect and strike that path
now blossom in the aftermath

awash in colors bright and true
most treasured memory of you
by afterglow in infrared
with renewed power forge ahead

(2023)