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An egg silhouetted against the window

As red as the big circle outside

Covered in endless seconds and dust

Only loneliness stands by its side

Silent figurine, to where would you run?

When you can’t even go to sleep

Eyes wide open against your own will

Time atrophying body but not dreams

Peaceful warrior, during meditation

Did you see this coming irony?

I was the one that gave you your eyes

But you were the one that made me see

Putting an end in this long karma

By giving me a kiss in my eyelids.

Mike Rodrigues

Before and after

                                                               You + Me = We - cartolina e tinta

I was lost before you came

Before you came I wasn’t me

But if I was, then I don’t know

Maybe I just couldn’t see

See what was already there

Waiting for me somehow, somewhere

Waiting for me to let it be

Waiting for me to set it free

I got lost after you came

After you came I’m not myself

But if I am I can’t compare

Maybe I am just somebody else

Somebody that was already there

Waiting for someone else to care

Waiting to just feel complete

To finally make my heart beat.

Mike Rodrigues

S(e)oulless

This city screams steel and concrete

Faceless beings pretend not to hear

The paths, the lines, the way to go have already been set

There is no need to think ahead,

To think outside,

To look behind…

There are no homeless dogs on the streets.

Masked beings leave their houses powered by caffeine.

Alienation comes in the form of a screen.

This city screams loudly

In a language I can’t even speak.

Mike Rodrigues

Atlas

Under the subway bridge

A boy firmly waits

Leaning on the cold concrete

It's such a giant weight

Above, the subway bridges

Aside, the river slowly flows

Inside some faces come

While some faces go

The bridge shakes with the train

The river sings as it rolls

The boy silently sustains

The boy, himself a pole

The bridge on the boy's shoulder

A heavy cross, a burden

Together such an odd couple

The bridge and the boy that cuddle.

Mike Rodrigues

Maybe

You may beware,

You may bethink:

It may behave,

It may be great;

It may be low,

It may betray,

It may bewilder,

You may bewail.

Maybe below

You may behold,

Maybe beyond

It may be known

Maybe beloved,

It may be love: it may bewitch,

It may be not: you may be hurt.

Something isn't

There is something in between us

Something don’t let us be

It’s like an unwalkable distance

So far our eyes can’t even see

There is something in between us

Impeding us from communication

There’s something blocking this relation

As if different languages is what we speak

There is something in between us

As thin as air, invisible and cold

It keeps us apart as we grow old

And we can’t figure out what it is

There is something in between us

And I bet is called “silence”

It’s the screams of our anxiety

It is so loud we can't even hear.

Taxi cab

"Somewhere, on the other side of the world, is a person perfect for you. It's almost certain you're never gonna meet but sometimes destiny steps in and gives you a glimpse of what you'll be missing."

A. G. V.

"Coincidence makes sense

Only with you 

You don't have to speak

I feel" 

Jóga, Björk

You were there already

Somewhere waiting to meet me

Somewhere waiting to say hi

Somewhere waiting to let it be

You were there already

All those smiles I coudn't see

All that existence I didn't know

All those words I couldn't hear

You were there already

Living your years till our hours

Living your life till our dream

Living your stories till we had ours

You were there already

Somewhere on the other side of sea

All those poems I didn't wrote

Living, just living, waiting for it!

Mike Rodrigues

Olhos

I don't usually write in English because it is hard for me, but I just noticed that the US is the second leading country from where comes the access to my blog. I don't have an originaly written English poem right now, but I thought it would be nice if, at least, I translated the last one^^

Almond eyes

Closed as little clefts

Cracks through which

Oriental sunbeams

Escape your soul

And enter into mine

Eyes that when smile

Become even sunnier

And melt the snow of this cold land

Eyes that close embarrassed

When hearing compliments

From my foreign language

Eyes that keep so many

Distant mysteries

Encrypted secrets

Eyes that bewitch me,

These almond-shaped eyes.

Mike Rodrigues

Paper box

Put me inside your paper box

And shake me up until

My body separate from my soul.

Then let me be free

To see this world from above (and beyond),

Let my eyes grow into full moons

From planets with a thousand rings,

So you can watch some alien aurora borealis,

As if they were giant TV screens.

Let's wait until the time slow down

And the night fall on our heads

So I can shine all the iridescent colors

And we can be white even in the dark.

Yuri Mushrock