I was not careful
When you were yet a stranger
Your eyes were filled with tenderness
Enough to dazzle me

Surviving a broken heart
You became a cool refuge for my loneliness
When you knew that it was hard
For me to smile through my tears

So your flatteries
Made me slide my heart into your hands
Just when I needed someone to spend some time with
Then my pride escaped me
Grown into a natural appetite for you

Like an enormous sunflower
I lay down beneath you
Willing to sacrifice my pride for those moments
With your thrusting presence inside of me
Your marvelous talent to love
I slowly dissolved

Your damp flesh
Pressed against my breasts
Glowing with joy
You softly shining like the bright new moon

Then I saw the moonlight
Agile and flowing through the window
Of the dark room
Instantly
I remembered what love felt like

The Eyes Of My Traitor

His gifts buried his secrets
His greed carried no shame
The eyes of my traitor; spoke like me
Yet his merciless hands enslaved me

He bore me gifts of rum
His pleasure made me drunk
The eyes of my traitor; black like me
Yet he put my hands into chains

He dragged my brothers and me
To a ship which had no name
The eyes of my traitor, same as me
Yet he sold me to the sea

Now

When my heart would not rest
Until it has found an object to cherish;
When it would break no shackles but its own.
Something more powerful,
Something more demanding than any other;
And the thrums of its beat
Overpowers the vastness of my loneliness
and its endless pain.
My eyes set to my past
Which I have left behind
Like the sun-scorched earth

But time has helped me to settle down again
Now you stand before me
Like lofty cliffs of the mountains
Bearing the horizon
And my hopes for happiness
With such keen mountain air
Of pronounced freshness

Your voice and your presence
Has shattered the silence
Your smile has begun to lighten my dreariness
Your kisses of pleasant sweetness
So refreshing to my palate!
Suddenly, I have passed through sadness
Because you are here with me
Now.