Looking up as the light shines from your face

Through thousands of years, side stays in its place

You came not from us nor from whence we came

Not one of our family but we gave you a name

Though barren and lonely we love you the same

With others we've had competitions and games

We told them all we were first to embrace your skin

Fact is we told them whatever it took for a win...

We're sorry we lied but we had complications

An invisible wall we reached with no indication

But we've been in touch since then and they need not know

They've already paid for the tickets and they've already left the show

Now we'll share you with the others for the time being

In this agreement we've made for the good things they're bringing

Apologize for the additions we've made to your shell

But we had no other options, for peace, or so we'll soon tell...

They'll believe it no matter for we gave them what they want

Peace of mind and a lie that keeps them all nonchalant

Soon all will be ready for their rapture to come

Not knowing we'll have them right under our thumb

We'll keep saying you're the reason for keeping the tide

One day we'll be with you and for my last days reside...

As the night comes to an end and as I say my goodbye

I look up at the artificial spaceship residing in the sky...

© Elvis Dino Esquivel

Imagen: Andrejzt

If I stopped changing today

I surely wouldn't live long,

but I've got nothing to say

and, when I say it, it's wrong.

I'm leaving just for a while,

I hope you all understand.

For some, I leave you a smile,

I'll do the best that I can.

I know I'm not saying something,

I just don't know what it is,

but if I leave only one thing,

I'm gonna make sure it's this:

I love you all very much,

I love all the memories,

but life, it ends up as such

while some will stay, this one flees.

© Elvis Dino Esquivel

Imagen: carts

On the lone airport, 

wanderlust-possessed shadows;

summer is endless.

***

The cosmic justice:

to love you and not have you;

love's oblivion.

***

On the quiet train,

astray autumnal shadows;

nights are eternal.

***

Deep inside the rain,

tiny particles escape;

the gods disappear.

***

No stars in the sky;

a wanderer roams astray.

Universe awaits.

***

In a remote land,

a sailor encounters death;

freedom is not free.

***

Lonely oasis,

you are nature’s miracle;

ergo, life blossoms.

***

Tu oscuridad

se nutre del vil tiempo;

de ti la mía.

***

Los inviernos

nacen de la memoria;

yo soy el frío.

***

Gama ventosa,

hoy lo invisible pintas;

tiempo incoloro.

***

Muerte banal

es tu pálida faz;

soy el estío.

***

El peregrino

peregrina cegado;

soy el camino.

***

Medir la vida

en tiempo, siempre agobia;

perpetua muerte.

***

La vida efímera,

gradual la muerte eterna;

la guerra es todo.

***

Surrounded by blue,

a charming soul wanders free,

the bright sun doesn't sets.

***

How others can live

without you? A mystery.

I am here for you...

***

Surrounded by sand,

a wandering soul smiles peace;

freedom is superb.

***

Tus alas de alba

vuelan al más allá;

hoy viaja lejos.

***

El tiempo fue,

la primavera espera;

viaja la mente.

***

Otoño tímido,

una alma viaja libre

en tu hoja seca.

***

Perpetuo sol,

el ocaso sonríe;

ojos de estrellas.

***

Luz engañosa,

sonriente oscuridad;

soy aire libre.

***

Amiga mía,

tus ojos se me escapan;

albor remoto.

***

Es mar la tarde,

tus alas son de acero,

tus ojos, perlas.

***

Look, we both swiped right,

your soul craves a poem,

this haiku for you.

© Elvis Dino Esquivel

Imagen: rawpixel

To Samantha Kennedy

Where is the future?

Did we just escaped the past?

Hold on for a moment,

it's goddamn night time!

Look at Gran Vía, ¡joder!

No Celtiberians, no Romans,

no Visigoths, no Moors,

no Spaniards, but only madrileños!

Let's walk towards Malasaña!

Espera, this is Plaza Dos de Mayo,

stand still for an instant.

Look at all these people,

the night is young, seize it!

Drink and the night will last!

Oh, timeless Plaza Mayor!

Afraid of the darkness?

We brought our own light!

We shine in silence,

not for a transient moment,

but perpetually.

Doorless Puerta del Sol...

Where is the silence? Oh, silence!

«Cerveza por un euro, cerveza»

says a random man from the Far East..

Shut up, but give me that beer!

Now silence! Let me enjoy the silence

while I sit in this fountain,

drinking myself some time...

Time freezes at the bares,

beings share stories, all the stories.

Time ceases for few hours,

beer or tinto de verano, tapas and greetings

waves of people, weaving away time...

Forget the effigies of dead men,

forget the buildings and its architecture;

one night it will fall upon you,

perpetual chaos.

Don't be fooled by time,

drink and seize the moment:

Madrileños, let's all make history!

Madrid, let me forget absolutely everything

but your streets;

every moment of my life but this night.

Demolish half your buildings,

but not your charm.

Let me forget about your legacy,

but not your twilights and dawns.

Joder...

The sun is rising... enhorabuena:

We have killed the night... again!

...

(Repeat.)

© Elvis Dino Esquivel

I'm the other, the weird, the stranger,

the shadow nobody follows,

the being who is looked down upon.

I'm the outsider, the abominable,

who crawls around the pavement,

who cries silently in the border,

wanting to cross the other side...

An ocean, a tall wall denies me access

(at least I believe it does) to comfort.

I'm the unwanted, the unknown face,

the wandering ignored past,

the mysterious façade that has been

alter throughout mirrors and centuries;

whose voice impress or discomforts 

those who belong in the other side...

I am what I am, but how can I change that?

By dreaming? Waiting? Continuing getting lost?

Hoping? Praying? Cursing the other side?

© Elvis Dino Esquivel

Imagen: artsbyzer0

Through

the sky they fall;

please, tell me why,

why do they all

continue to die?

Explosions began any kind of action,

ruled under one benefitting faction,

throwing at us so many distractions

to cover they're, oh, so hasty reaction.

They say I'm unpatriotic not supporting the cause,

when the cause of all our problems are the patriot laws;

instead of "protection" from all the "terrorist" threat

give us all free medical, education, and less debt.

Billions of dollars sent to countries we destroyed,

no money kept here for the ones who need employed.

Two years spent in the sand and again deployed,

won't ever get to hold the hand of his baby boy.

I'm so sick of this shit and I hope you all are too!

Whatever happened to our good Ole Red, White and Blue?

It's crazy because I'm starting to ask myself the question:

What if what the whole world's saying is true?

Enough crying there's people dying,

we may never see the end, but it won't stop me from trying

to figure out why it is that this country

can't see that all of its politicians have been lying.

I heard a man say that this is all a big plan,

that liberation's not the reason we're going for Iran,

Iraq, Afghanistan, it doesn't really matter,

just as long as those assholes wallets keep getting fatter.

World War 3 won't be labeled until it's done!

How much longer will we keep letting them have their fun?

Leaving our problems to be dealt with for our young,

it's like handing a little kid a fuckin' loaded gun!

React too slow and it will be too late.

They'll start in the courts, yeah, then through your front gate.

So many people call it crazy, shit, I wish he was kidding.

He said, "we won't see it coming if it starts in the city!"

We won't see it coming if it starts in the city!

We won't see it coming when it starts in the city!

No, we won't see it coming.

We'll never ever see it coming...

© Elvis Dino Esquivel

Imagen: Dale Williams

Sluggish snail, immortal snail:

There is something that we foolishly call time,

and it's much like you:

It slowly moves and slowly continues,

but never stops, knows no patience;

you are immortal

since you are unaware

of time and death...

© Elvis Dino Esquivel

Imagen: Pavel Bondarenko

I'm here lost and lonely,

trying to reach you 

from this forgotten 

corner of the universe; 

and you're out there,

somewhere,

in the other side of infinity,

forming galaxies

with your smile...

© Elvis Dino Esquivel

Imagen: iStock

Even if you die,

I don't lose you,

you live in my dreams...

© Elvis Dino Esquivel

Imagen: alemcoksa