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
2024-03-10
vanishing point
Labels: eronaut
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
Labels: eronaut
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
Labels: eronaut
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
Labels: eronaut
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
Labels: infrared
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
Labels: eronaut
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
Labels: sisyphos
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
Labels: metamorphosis
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
Labels: infrared
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
Labels: alice
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
Labels: solitude
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
Labels: altered world
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
Labels: disrecovery
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
Labels: altered world
2023-06-13
train of thought / masquerade
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
let it slip, let it slip (just a little bit)
gotta run, gotta run (the dance is on)
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
(just a bit, just a bit)
give me prizes, clap, clap, clap
(let it slip, let it slip)
makes all things always out to be
like snails impaled once more curtailed
i ran and slipped again derailed
so anyway just a fairytale
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)
Labels: disrecovery
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
Labels: altered world
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
Labels: disrecovery
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
Labels: omega
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
Labels: metamorphosis
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
Labels: infrared