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The Trojan Gift

On the other side of Rio-Antirrio Bridge

Awaits the breathtaking Ionian Sea

A Trojan gift

You once brought to me.

With each fire you lit

The bridge between us grew wider and stronger,

Yet merely a one-way street,

The only escape being the water down under.

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Twin Flames

We touched, and we instantly felt the blaze, An invisible thread some call the twin flames. Both awesome bliss and excruciating pain, Whatever our souls are made of, yours and mine were the same.

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An Old Habit

Picking up an old habit, half good and half bad,

To go out for a coffee and a walk in the park,

Fiercely resurfacing, as I pass by an old statue,

The abiding desire of writing to you…

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A Day At The Beach

I've known you in ways

Others didn't see fit

A lustful urge

You couldn't resist.

The sea and the sun

Write the forbidden tale

Of a perfect day on the beach

We never got to live.

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Cold in the Coffee Shop

It was cold in the coffee shop; but then again, I'm always cold.

That's why I've never neglected the blanket, that's why I've got so quickly so old.

All I can think of is you, laughing at me in your T-shirt, covering me in kisses and sheets,

Invariably shutting the kitchen window and holding my hand on the streets.

Somehow summer was not your best friend, but it has always been mine,

And I look at the grounds now and I ask for a sign,

Of how much from your heart was love and how much it was ice,

Wether all that coffee was worth paying its price.

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Two sides

About us, I'd say there were always two sides,

Different like the day and the night,

The peace and the warmth I have found in your arms,

And the torment of your silence, of all the what-if's and the why's.

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The Path Through The Forest

One of the thoughts keeping me awake late at night

Is that we couldn't travel to the forest together, and I still don't know why.

We've talked about the secret path through the trees, but you've never come,

And now the leaves are turning to yellow and the summer is gone…

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The Way Back

All the bridges are calling my name, To cross to another island, to walk on a different land, Rivers of rhymes, letters that will now burn, Lighting the way back from the point of no return.

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Midnight by the river

In our first nights, we gazed at the stars together,

And I thought you see the same beauty as I, water and stone,

Yet here I am, at midnight, by the Lotru river,

Watching the constellations alone…

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Dieffenbachia Story

Our love was like a rare flower,

Blossoming once in ten years or so,

You gave me wings, along with an astonishing power

To fly over the highest mountains and never let go.

I've nourished it with letters, kisses and poetry,

You've done your part by keeping on watering it, from time to time,

Next to the giant leaves we've had our coffee together, while sharing a fantasy

Of an almighty dragon subdued with a mandolin chime.

We've left blood and bones on the battlefield,

As we also have had our fights,

All taboos broken, all secrets revealed,

All wounds healed by the soft petals of bliss in our nights.