Let go

  To let go
Is often more challenging than holding on
But never more frightening
Than allowing the heart to lose control:
Let the feelings prevail and the instincts convey
As passions randomly melt,
And fate demonstrates, over and over again,
That love is ultimately a leap of faith.

To let go
Takes all the courage and sometimes even pain
As you must be loyal to what the soul dictates:
What’s right doesn’t always make sense,
What’s real very few people get,
What lasts depends on your own strength
To deal with changes, to forgive and wait,
And what completes us? We can only ask ourselves,
The answer is easy: Love, time and time again.

To let go
When you are lost in love
Takes time to admit that not all will be forgot,
To draw a new path, choose to walk alone,
Count the stars that are born between your sunset and my dawn
And lose track of those that fall from the sky above…
To have the certainty that after Winter
A new Spring will come.

To let go
Takes all that you have and a bit more
As you put the pictures in boxes,
Store the memories but memorize the poems,
And tell yourself that it’ll be better that way
Although the emptiness stays a bit longer each day.

To let go
When the story has ran its course,
When the night feels older, the moon shines somber,
The joy feels sober
And passions no longer take cover among my heart and yours…
Then I’ll let go knowing
That love no longer belongs
To the two of us.

AVO

Leaving

 You left one day
Just as you arrived:
Sudden, unexpected,
Leaving a whole world behind…
With that blue of sadness
Sailing the deepness of your eyes,
With that green of hope
Shifting the currents of my life.

I was captive for a long time
By memories that hardly ever left my side,
Prisoner of dreams that waited for the sunrise to go down,
Hostage of illusions that whispered softly your goodbye.
Without words and in silence
Everything was left behind
Like a story never written,
Like love lost in time,
Like snow that disappears as kisses melting in my hand.

You left one day
Just as you arrived:
Leaving love scattered, in little pieces and shattered,
Inconclusive promises between the lines…
I could read your past claiming
A part of the happiness that we could have had.

Destiny can be ironic
And even cruel at times,
But is what we make of the present
What shows what we are really made of inside.

You left one day
Just as you arrived:
Quietly but knowing
That yours is my heart.
But now time has passed
And I have to leave these broken dreams behind,
Not without telling you
That I loved you like I never thought I might,
That our story could have lasted,
That I will miss your hand caressing mine.

You left one day
Just as you arrived:
Challenging the order of the world around,
Making dreams seem possible
And all the moments unstoppable,
As time is implacable and always runs so fast.

You left one day
And today I’m leaving it all behind:
The unanswered questions,
This silent love wondering why,
Bittersweet memories under the Winter sky,
And the wind whispering softly
Why did you leave without saying goodbye.

AVO

Protegiendo el alma

 Embotellé mi alma
Para que no quedara a la deriva y acabara
Sacudida por tu tempestad o congelada por la calma,
Para que no la agrietara el viento o la secara el agua
Ni se rompiera con las olas
Que se agitan sobre tu playa.

Embotellé mi alma
Y la lancé sin rumbo entre una inmensa marejada,
Esperando que encontrara un camino
Entre naufragios e islas abandonadas,
Entre el polo de tu brújula y el destino desdibujado de los mapas,
Entre susurros de sirenas y amenazas de piratas,
Entre los recuerdos que dejaste y las historias olvidadas.

Embotellé mi alma
En un viejo cristal que encontré sobre la arena una mañana:
Su color azul se parecía a la nostalgia escrita en tu mirada,
Y en sus destellos de luz
Se reflejaban una a una mis sonrisas y mis lágrimas.

Embotellé mi alma
Para que tu partida no la dejara marcada
Y tal vez el arrecife de la tristeza esquivara…
Con el deseo oculto de que un rumbo contrario al tuyo navegara,
Y entre la sal ahogara todo lo que no fue
Pero que en el fondo yo anhelaba.

Embotellé mi alma
Pero no sirvió de nada:
Mis sueños se fugaron tras tus sueños
Tan pronto como despuntó el alba;
El amor escapo furtivo, sin saber si era tuyo o mio,
Y lo encontré una vez mas
Construyendo castillos de arena sobre tu playa.

Embotellé mi alma
Tratando de permanecer distante y resguardada
De la tormenta que causo tu adiós
Y del dolor que aún causa la distancia…
Pero lo cierto es que la vida no se siente igual si se vive aislada,
Todo se siente a medias y la pasión desgasta,
Y aunque el desengaño vuelva como la marea sube y baja
Siento que mi amor persiste y aún tiene alas.

AVO

2 Minutes

 If you only had 2 minutes
What would you say?
We are miles apart and oceans away
And yet in those minutes
We are one, once again…

If you only had 2 minutes
Would you let “I love U” escape,
Would you tell me you miss me
Or your passion confess,
Would you overcome the fear
Of distance separating our fate,
Would you find the courage to ask me to stay…
Or perhaps in silence
Would you disappear again?

If you only had 2 minutes
Before the connection runs out again,
Before the confusion takes over
And I get into another plane,
Would you gather the strength to turn around our pain?
To gain from the losses and learn from the gains,
To let go of the past
And avoid the same mistakes.

If you only had 2 minutes
Would you pronounce my name
Caressing every letter, filling every space,
And would you wish you could kiss me again,
Feel your defenses surrender,
Our lines converging underneath my neck.

If you only had 2 minutes
To decide whether to go or to stay
Would you realize that a love like this may never come again,
Would you be satisfied if we don’t reunite,
And we both disappear into the horizon line?

If you only had 2 minutes
2 minutes to your feelings convey
You could be in silence or use words to express,
But don’t let your heart run away again
As time runs swiftly and love can change…
In a world were memories
Are reluctant to remain.

AVO

Donde estarás

 Me pregunto donde estarás
En esta noche clara
Que caminos recorrerán tus pasos,
Y que tan serena dormirá tu calma.
Me pregunto si la melancolía
También te sorprenderá de improviso y sin coartadas,
Si confesaras haberme amado y alejado
Entre silencios y miradas,
Entre distancias e ilusiones fugadas.

Me pregunto donde estarás
Mientras despunta el alba,
Que mares navegarán los espejos celestes de tu alma,
Y que tan profunda será la huella
Que dejó mi vida sobre tu playa.

Me pregunto donde estarás
Y por que tus besos no despiertan sobre mi piel esta mañana,
Si lo nuestro era torrente y como un río desbordaba
Los confines del amor
De pasión vestía y con ternura acariciaba,
Y eran nuestros los poemas
Que susurraba el viento mientras de sueños nos llenaba.

Me pregunto donde estarás
A medida que avanza implacable la distancia,
A pesar de mi tristeza declarada
Y de mis ansias por decifrar lo que la incertidumbre nos depara
Hoy siento el vacío, incuestionable y frío,
Y como navío a la deriva,
En altamar y esquiva,
Surco el mar de recuerdos donde encalló mi alma.

AVO

Today

 Today I woke up
And another year had passed :
A thousand more memories draw the colors of my life,
A thousand more pictures confess where my passion lays,
A thousand trips taken under the starriest skies
Scouting the horizon for the bluest eyes,
And a thousand times broken
My heart still breaths, in the dark.

Today I woke up
And I knew I would find
That empty space you left
In the right side of my nights,
So many pieces scattered,
An incomplete path has shattered,
As our courage didn’t last.

Today I woke up
Only to realize
That love as we knew it may never come back:
Your silence has broken
Between my dreams and my motives,
And it left us searching for clues in the past.

Today I woke up
A year older but feeling wise…
Although among tears I still wonder why,
I don’t let your memory turn blue the bluest sky,
Turn sour the sweetness of love written in time,
Turn somber the hope that someday we will find
The one story that will all others outshine.

Today I woke up
Accepting that this love may never pass:
It may be transformed or hidden in the attic of the past,
But our feelings will continue to collide
Like a universe in motion, stars that will relentlessly ignite,
And it will continue flowing, in the wind of the morning,
In the midst of the night,
In the distance that separates
The closeness of our lives.

Today I woke up
Remembering those kisses that lingered in the dawn…
Too much time is wasted
Giving up,
Too little faith is vested
In the ones that might…
And if I had only one more chance, one more try,
I would give again all my love with no doubts,
As perfection is an empty search
And the thruth is found listening to your heart.

AVO

I will keep

 I will keep
The very first kiss
And the very first moment
You laid eyes on me:
The bluest oceans that I could foresee,
Surrounded by currents you made me feel
Your deepest desires sailing through me.

I will keep the warmth of your hand
Caressing my cheek,
Your lips uncovering
All it could be:
A lifetime of “firsts”,
A story written of you & me.

I will keep
The very first kiss
And the very first picture that you took of me:
The way you perceived the beauty within,
All the things that others have missed:
What’s infinite and timeless, imperfect or grim,
But so unequivocally me.

I will keep the very first breakfast,
Our hands clasped underneath the seat,
The smell of strawberries
And your smile pouring its light on me.

I will keep
The very first kiss
And the very first argument that we both missed,
The way love followed, with its passion and sorrows,
Until our hearts healed…
Time goes by so slowly when you are not with me!

I will keep
The very first kiss
And the certainty that love is impossible to defeat;
Somewhere in the universe our fate coincides, our paths collide,
And this love unwritten
A beautiful story will write:
A story of hope, of faith in the unknown,
A story that will only get better with time.

I will keep
Your fearless embrace and your vulnerable ways,
Your moments of courage and your silence as well,
And I will keep your shyness and your tenderness,
As your way of saying
That you also long for togetherness.

I will keep
The sound of your laugh
And all those dreams whispered in the middle of the night
Defying the darkness like drops of dawn,
Naive promises that love intertwines,
Lying under the stars we envisioned a life
Unaware of the distance, oblivious of time.

I will keep
The very first kiss
And the very first poem
That set this love free;
That put fears to rest, and with “I love you” confessed
All these feelings that we unexpectedly share.

I will also keep the memories of the good and the wrongs
Because I know that we can make it work,
And I will keep the storms and the rain,
When life was not perfect and uncertainty was there
But we chose to hold on,
Knowing that a new day would come
And love will not be forgo.

AVO

For you

 These words are for you
My unconfesed truth,
My unlikely present
Love that comes through,
These years of learning
Silence and echoes unfolding you.

These words are for you:
My broken dreams and the new ones too,
My passion, my past,
My impatient desire to last,
The time that runs away and my intention to wait,
My new found courage and my fear to stay,
The memories that I’ve kept
And the moments that have lost their way,
Thousands of kisses that in your lips prevail…
My imperfect manias
And all the tenderness, all it may.

These words are for you
The one that once found me
Amongst unraveled roads,
The one that has sailed
Through seas of hope
Overcoming distance, overcoming odds,
Becoming the ocean where I could belong.

These words are for you,
Because we both know
That somehow this love will reach its shore,
And then our dreams
Will never have to sleep alone.

AVO

Entendiendo el Silencio

 Hay muchos tipos de silencio:
Esta el silencio que entiendes aunque no diga nada,
Y otro que confunde y hiere, aunque este lleno de palabras.
Esta el silencio que se declara con la frialdad de una mirada,
Y otro que es aliado y cómplice, y al que le sobran alas.

Esta el silencio que apacigua y sana,
Y es la mejor respuesta a la incertidumbre del mañana.
Esta el silencio que viaja entre los confines del alma,
Y el silencio que calla, cuando están de más las palabras…
Cuando el amor termina y las razones faltan,
Cuando la noche llega sin despuntar el alba.

Hay muchos tipos de silencio:
Esta el silencio que oculta tristeza inconfesada,
Y el silencio que consuela como un mar en calma.
Esta el silencio que respira,
Que grita y lentamente pasa,
Y otro que es eterno, de hielo sólido su coraza.
Esta el silencio que de magia esta escrito y de deseo escarlata,
Y al amor secreto entre destellos delata.
Esta el silencio que inventa excusas y un buen dia estalla,
Y otro que no requiere explicaciones ni coartadas.

Pero mi silencio es prófugo y busca el alba:
Lo encuentras a tu lado cuando el anochecer se arraiga
Y el brillo de las estrellas entre tus sueños se apaga.
Mi silencio es jóven e inexperto,
Y aveces logra estrujarte el alma,
Navega confesando amor
Y naufraga entre caricias apasionadas…

Mi silencio es milenario y sabio,
Y a menudo consigue impacientar tu calma:
Es tu tiempo y mi tiempo conjugados al pintar
Crepúsculos sobre las sábanas.

Mi silencio repasando recuerdos
Mi silencio recorriendo miradas
Mi silencio entendiendo lo que no dicen tus palabras…

Mi silencio eterno de nos,
Vacíos y llenos
De momentos
Y de distancias

AVO

Tu Tiempo

  Me gusta tu tiempo,
Y las lineas que dibujan tus manos sobre mi cuerpo,
Tu voz pausada desvaneciendo mis miedos
Y la impaciencia que delata
La profundidad de tus anhelos.

Me gusta tu tiempo
Y el rumbo clandestino de tu silencio,
La constelacion que habitas
Cuando tu mirada se funde
En lo profundo de mis deseos.

Me gusta tu tiempo
Y el sabor a nostalgia de tus besos,
El olor a mar y a viento
Que dejas impregnado en mi recuerdo
Y los matices infinitos de tu deseo…
Me pierdo a menudo
En los recodos impenetrables de tus sueños
Pero encuentro refugio
En la dulzura de tus labios confesando besos.

Me gusta tu tiempo
Porque cesa de existir
En el devenir continuo de nuestros momentos.

AVO