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Una Isla Para Amarte
Aquella vez que nos vimos por vez primera
Se aproxima calladamente a la voz de mis tiempos.
El recuerdo de tus manos, tan tibias,
al jugar por vez primera con mis cabellos
Descubriendo el temblor de mil emociones desde mi espalda...
Y ambos en silencio.
El desenfreno curioso de nuestros besos primeros,
Me convertí para ti en una isla redescubierta.
Nadie como tú quiso tenerla,
Nadie como tú quiso saberla por entera.
Una isla de mares serenos
Y olas salvajes,
De misterio en la noche
Y a la vez, abierta a tu alma
Cubriéndote de sal y de lágrimas.
Sentí sobre mi pecho
Tu proclama en los vientos
Que tú en una noche
Te transformaste en mi dueño.
Pero por vez primera
Estaba cautiva y a la vez totalmente libre,
Y hoy que aun tiemblo al dormirme en el recuerdo
Sigo siendo una isla redescubierta
Para amarte en cada uno de nuestros tiempos
Y para redescubrirte cada mañana,
Alma, corazón y cuerpo,
Tú sigues siendo mi dueño perfecto.
Your Beloved Island
The moment we saw each other for the first time
Comes quietly reaching the voice of my times.
The memory of your hands, so warm,
Playing with my hair for the first time
Discovering the trembling of a thousand emotions
through my back …
Both of us silent.
The curious craziness of our first kisses,
For you I became an island newly rediscovered.
No one like you wanted the island,
No one like you wanted to know it so completely.
An island of calm oceans,
And wild waves,
Of mystery at night
And at the same time, opened to your soul
salt and tears covering you.
I felt over my breasts
Your claim into the winds,
You in just one night
Became my owner.
But for the very first time
I was both captive and completely free.
Today, when I still tremble dreaming over the memory,
I am still a newly rediscovered island
To love you at every one of our instants
And to rediscover you each morning,
Soul, heart, and flesh,
You still are my perfect owner.
To Patrick, my husband
From Roxana Reyes Davis, 12-19-05
copyright@2005
~~~~~*~~~~~
Angel in the Darkness
You’re my angel in the darkness,
the moon shining over my heart…
You are my illusion when all my hopes have left me,
my dream of warm nights inside your arms.
I had lived away from your closeness,
In my own search for happiness, for new laughters,
and sweet tears,
yet my soul is not content
though it seems I found the passion I had lost.
My arms remain as empty as they were before,
And as I tear my dreams to let them follow your winds,
I stay alone sitting by this shore,
witness of our love.
You’re my angel in this loneliness,
this feeling of being everything I want to be
and yet feeling I am nothing.
But even though you, my angel
can’t kiss my lips to bring me comfort,
someday, I dream,
your glassy wings would be able to shine over my shadows
so bright, alive, and real
that all my pains, my endless nights,
will seem at last a flight away.
I’ll wait for you,
my angel soul,
sitting beside this shore of life,
witness of our love…
Roxana Reyes Santos
March 29,1999
~~~~~*~~~~~
In honor of Love
Oh, how I thirst for your arms….
How I thirst for your eyes knowing my hidden self.
It is an intense force driving my life beats toward you.
Intense,
Yes,
Yet,
I still
Thirst,
Wanting,
Longing.
Living in eternal agony
Within my flesh.
Oh, my tender childlike kiss,
The image of a thousand lovers loving me, whole.
A soft flight on the wings of time,
A timeless instant, breaking our souls…
Still,
I’m broken,
Otherwise … can’t love,
Dreaming your lips
Over my song,
Still,
I suffer
Bittersweet wanting,
The image of your arms over my heart…
Yet,
Don’t think
I’ll die of love
Or of long nights,
I’ll fly on wings through endless skies,
I’ll reach the spirit behind the man,
In a thousand lovers loving me,
Whole….
Roxana Reyes copyright@98
July 2, 1998