*The Roses*

I sat among the roses, I was drunk on the Sun and the perfumes that were dancing and exploding like a Summer storm, while I kept trying to focus my mind on the pages full of words of love, a mind that was full of you and expectation. Everything was shiny, even the darkness of the questions that popped up from the depths of uncertainty.

“I will meet you in the woods”, you had said.

But the woods surrounded me with their immensity, I was lost and my heart was bursting into a thousand words of despair. The Sun, the roses, the white bridge that crystallized my loneliness and the blue ribbons that tied our souls together, a fight between my hopes and the Universe.

I ran to the abysm of nowhere and lost my way, for then I saw you floating towards me above the melodies of laughter –the Universe was on our side and we embraced the victory with the mere gesture of smiling to each other. I was yours and we were blessed by the stars, and nothing stopped us while we slipped slowly to the rainbows in the skyline.

We shared the goods –and the bads-, the woods acclaimed us with their quiet complicity, there were birds but we did not hear them, everything was blurry and indifferent around us -it was you and I and a bucketful of shadows. The Madcap greeted us with his gigantic green enigma and after a minute of attention he became a part of the landscape –it was you and I and a page full of paradise. You were sitting next to me wearing your blue perfection and your brown deepness, which pierced my flaming spirit –I was the dove on your shoulder and you fed me with your wisdom –You were the panther in the shadows and I contemplated you with mesmerized fascination.

The Fountain of Perpetual Mirth emerged from the orange melancholia, everything was fanfare and ecstasy, a festival of water and drops of Heaven –but you and I had our own scenery of magical perplexity –it was the roses which turned everything into a nebulous delight, we had discovered the path that lead to the infinite pleasure and we were the only ones drinking from the Fountain, and we shared that secret with sacred breathless euphoria –You were sitting next to me and I was a child with my eyes wide open; you held my hand and I handed you my destiny –it was you and I and the glow of expectation. We feared nothing and we laughed in the face of the threatening fist. You held my hand and I swan in your glittering eyes, and the sky was the looking-glass of our forthcoming passions and the witness of the seed that was blown in the harmonious Summer wind, which developed into the most marvelously scented crimson flower. You placed the flower in my hair and the roses bowed before its beauty –it was you and I and the birth of the spark that would illuminate the way we would walk together through the labyrinth of life. Everything around us was eclipsed by the most profound quietness. You held my hand and I heard your heart beat in complete harmony with mine, and we walked languidly among the shades of the trees that whispered their blessing to our thrilled souls. Sunset was upon us, and we were the muses of the sky, now an infinite flame which opened us a gate to a golden dream, and we were honored to be a part of it.

The rising Moon and the diamonds in the sky were a mere reflection of the shooting stars in your eyes, my guides in the darkness of the night, the obscure night that announced the imminent bifurcation in our way. But then our eyes met in the still air of the end of the day, and we knew there is not such thing as separation –it was you and I and our everlasting Love.

July 16^th, 2003. 6:18 pm