Entities Masquerade

Simt a iernii rece gheață,

Șoptindu-mi vag și cu dulceață

Cum mă-ndeamnă să visez

Și-un ultim portret să-i pictez.

Precum un sacru jurământ,

Îi aud vocea sus, în vânt,

Și, după multe lupte crunte,

Eu pic lat pe-acel lugubru munte.

Stau, ascult și bag de seamă:

Geru-mi cântă cea din urmă gamă.

Fără vlagă, treptat devin greoi

Și-ntrezăresc priviri de moroi.

Oare îmi joacă mintea feste?

Sau au primit și ei de veste

Că-n aceste ceasuri de tortură

Cu greu mă zbat la ultima pictură?

E ger, și albul mă completează,

În ochi, marea ceață se instalează.

Cu-n gest final, cam dureros,

Închei acest portret tăios.

Time has passed fast,

Yet it kept me awake

Constantly living that moment,

That spark of eternity,

That ray of glowing sunshine,

Luminous and delightful as the bluebell

Photographed by a pair of big, earthy eyes,

Kept alive on the surface of my retina,

Along neuronal pathways,

Planted like a sunflower seed

Deep inside my consciousness,

Flourishing and thriving,

Sweet as a lavender mousse.

So if the memory of our first encounter

Is delicate as a jasmine flower,

Or mesmerising as a sunset hibiscus,

You, my beloved, are the Rose of Venus

As Aphrodite dances around Gaia,

Leaving traces of red jasper petals,

Keeping us on the path to greater love-

So do you.

As the pure ones walk through the Garden of Eden,

Or as Iris brings the majestic rainbow

As a messenger of the gods,

Growing straight along its path to wisdom,

Bringing strength and boldness

To those who are blessed enough to see

So do you.

Cruel Cronos engraved me early,

not with gentleness,

but by hands of shadows

who mistook my springtime figure

for silence,

who thought my tears were seeds easily buried.

I was a sanctuary of lilies,

crushed before the bloom,

a jasmine bruised by shadows,

an innocent violet forced into stone.

Their voices were storms,

their laughter-chains of iron,

and I, too petite to fight,

learned the language of fear.

Yet within me, a sunflower spark

refusing to give up its soul,

rooted itself deeper,

drinking light even from darkness,

whispering: you are more than their hands,

you are more than their cruelty.

So I rose, piece by piece,

a wounded Rose of Venus,

crowned not by shame,

but by the fire of endurance.

Where they carved burning scars,

I carved flourishing constellations.

Where they plucked petals,

I grew wings of lavender and flame.

Now my voice is the garden restored:

not silent,

not broken,

but alive

a testament that innocence stolen

is not innocence lost,

that even from the deepest, darkest wound,

a sunflower can rise

and teach the world

what it means

to see, to feel,

and yet not become a shadow itself.

They descend not wearing velvet robes

stitched from honest stars,

but garments woven

from borrowed halos,

perfumed with white lilies

that never knew their roots.

They speak of stillness

as though silence were a temple;

of gentleness

as though mercy were a language

their sweetened tongues remembered.

They sell the purest serenity

like merchants beneath eclipses,

placing peace

upon polished altars,

asking only

for another soul to kneel.

Do not mistake

the absence of thunder

for the absence of venom.

Some serpents

have learned

to hiss between prayers.

Some abysses

have memorized

the vocabulary of light.

Beneath their gardens

grow neither jasmine nor magnolia

only moonlit pitcher plants,

their chalices open,

sweet with impossible nectar,

waiting for exhausted butterflies

who mistook hunger

for kindness.

There,

the blossoms bloom inward.

Petals become sharp teeth.

Fragrance becomes slow-wave sleep.

Roots become shackles,

coiling around ankles

too hopeful

to question beauty.

They preach stoicism,

yet harvest every trembling heart.

They praise compassion,

yet count mercy

only when it is bleeding.

They glorify forgiveness,

because forgiven wounds

are easier to reopen.

I have seen them—

keepers of immaculate orchards,

watering white roses

with borrowed sunlight,

while beneath the soil

countless sunflower corpses

lie hollow,

their gold devoured

to adorn another mask.

They call themselves shepherds.

Yet wolves have always known

how to imitate

the patience of snowfall.

The oldest predator

is not rage,

it is tenderness

performed

without a soul behind it.

In the deepest caverns,

where no dawn enters,

the ancient serpents

shed not their skin,

but their faces.

Each new smile

another immaculate prophecy.

Each embrace

another silent eclipse.

And those

who truly carry light

never ask

to be worshipped.

They bloom quietly,

like wild chamomile

between forgotten stones,

asking nothing

except stillness.

For real gardens

never hunger

for the sunflowers

that seek shelter.

Only carnivorous flowers

measure love

by what remains

after the petals

have disappeared.

So when they speak

of peace,

look beneath their roots.

When they preach

stillness,

listen for the bones

buried beneath the moss.

And when they promise

to save your sugared soul,

watch,

whether their shadows

lean toward your light,

or away from it.

For the oldest false prophet

was never the loudest.

He whispered

like rain upon marble,

held out

a blossom without scent,

and smiled

while somewhere,

far beneath the earth,

the abyss

opened its mouth

like a flower trap.

I see myself through your onyx-moon eyes,

reflecting lifetimes beneath their dark, still surface.

I hear echoes of my past self in your voice,

soft as falling petals

a resonance of storms I once weathered.

I have walked nearly the same sacred path

though you move swifter than the wind,

speak with the thunderclap of Athena's shield,

and shine brighter than Apollo's first light.

Once, a quiet child,

afraid of the voices of angry birds,

haunted by monsters who wore mortal skin,

now stands like a mountain in stormlight

shaking stone, breaking iron,

unfolding wings carved from suffering.

Power rests within your heart.

You just have to set yourself free

and rise above your painful ashes

as the phoenix is always reminding us:

even darkness serves the bloom.

And with glory and grace,

it rises from the ugliest hell

a constellation redrawn across the sky

for others to witness and remember:

the girl once silenced

is now myth,

is now sovereign.

That pure soul, once wingless,

wove galaxies with trembling hands,

built a world from garden bones

and broken lullabies.

A kingdom rooted in empathy

and crowned with wild roses.

Here, laughter rings like chapel bells.

Here, loyalty is the highest spell.

And respect towers like golden pillars,

engraved with the names of those who dared to become whole.

No damsels here

only queens of the flame,

warrior-poets in velvet armor,

keepers of sacred fire and gentle law.

This is not just a dream.

It is a place to call home.

Dear gentle reader,

Beneath the pale moonlight,

I have entered your dreams

and whispered softly

the legend of soul ties.

Slowly, you step beside me.

Hungry eyes gather in the distance.

The reality swallowing us whole

is nothing but a forgotten battlefield.

Your razor-sharp gaze is captured.

There, among dozens of rotting corpses,

stand two figures suspended in silence,

like the final pillars of a fallen temple.

The first— a broken priest.

Wounded, endlessly praying,

his trembling hands, his crooked fingers,

still searching for a fragment of mercy.

The second— a gentle demon.

Waves of warmth orbit around her.

Her sapphire eyes remain fixed upon the horizon,

calmly gazing into the endless dark.

You see them, don't you?

Remain still.

Obedience is the key.

Watch closely,

for what you are about to witness

will unsettle the deepest parts of your soul.

She senses the priest's sorrow

rising above the dead surrounding him.

His misery speaks louder than words.

"Take my hand," she whispers.

"Drink from my waters.

You have exhausted your strength

for far too long."

"My fair lady... my endless cup of hope...

How could a poor soul like mine

ever deserve to reach you?"

Like distant constellations,

their paths collide.

He drinks fiercely from the source of her light,

while she willingly holds him close,

believing compassion alone

can heal what time could not.

"How can this be?

Have I become blind

or simply mad?"

"Silence.

Ask yourself what you're truly seeing.

The truth stands before us.

It is only hidden

from those unwilling to look."

What feels like thousands of years pass.

The priest and the demon

begin studying one another.

One— cold as forged steel,

calculating,

entirely ruled by the mind.

The other— guided by razor-sharp intuition,

profound empathy,

and quiet emotional wisdom.

Again and again,

the priest manipulates, betrays, wounds,

engraving new scars into her soul.

Again and again,

the demon forgives.

Once. Twice.

Until—

something clicks.

The pattern reveals itself.

The spell dissolves.

She stands perfectly still,

frozen in time, calculating,

without anger, without reaction.

Holding every advantage,

she prepares her departure

in absolute silence.

She could have struck him down.

She could have carved wounds

deeper than those he had ever known.

But she finally understands.

This is no wounded soul.

This is a predator.

Her sapphire eyes become crystal clear.

And then—

she goes supernova.

The script shatters.

The roles reverse.

For the first time,

the priest chokes on fear.

He was clever.

Subtle as a serpent.

Yet painfully predictable.

She had always seen beyond the mask.

She understood him

better than he understood himself.

For the depth of her empathy

could only exist

because it mirrored

the depth of her own darkness.

And his downfall

would become far worse than hell.

"He searched for golden nectar,

yet stumbled upon an unknown creature."

The dead begin to vanish,

laughing into the wind.

The battlefield collapses

into an endless abyss,

opening its ancient mouth.

"Poor little priest...

At last,

you have shaken hands

with your karmic mirror."

Străpung hârtia cu penița,

sângerând, scriidu-ți numele, 

tremurând, cerneala alege

încet culoare veșniciei 

și cum privirea s-o-mbie...

Ți-aș adormi pe piept,

ca pe-o rece iarbă-n 

asfințit de vară,

și m-aș trezi în miez de noapte

privind coroana stelelor 

ce-n ochii tăi se odihniră...

Aș adormi-napoi ca

iarna lângă sobă,

strâns la pieptul tău

s-aud orice secundă 

din eternul-mpreună...

Poate vorbesc în parabole,

Poate par sculptor de tăceri

Sau profet fără scripturi,

Dar când te cuprind în brațe

Dumnezeu coboară atât de firesc

Încât nici îngerii nu se mai miră.

Vine ca și cum ar intra în propria Lui casă

și ar spune doar:

„Așa se scrie Raiul:

în doi, fără martori.”

Nu ți-am promis cerul

Doar l-am tras mai aproape.

L-am făcut să stea.

Și dacă vreodată te vei rătăci în lumină,

Eu voi fi umbra ta

Nu ca o fugă, ci ca o ancoră,

ca o dovadă că și Dumnezeu obosește uneori,

dar eu, bărbat, nu.

Et si tu n'existais pas,

dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais.

Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi,

sans espoir et sans regret.

Et si tu n'existais pas,

j'essaierais d'inventer l'amour

comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts

naître les couleurs du jour,

et qui n'en revient pas.

Et si tu n'existais pas,

dis-moi pour qui j'existerais.

Des passantes endormies dans mes bras

que je n'aimerais jamais.

Et si tu n'existais pas,

je ne serais qu'un point de plus

dans ce monde qui vient et qui va,

je me sentirais perdu.

J'aurais besoin de toi.

Et si tu n'existais pas,

dis-moi comment j'existerais.

Je pourrais faire semblant d'être moi,

mais je ne serais pas vrai.

Et si tu n'existais pas,

je crois que je l'aurais trouvé,

le secret de la vie, le pourquoi

simplement pour te créer,

et pour te regarder.

Et si tu n'existais pas

Dis-moi pourquoi j'existerais

Pour traîner dans un monde sans toi

Sans espoir et sans regret

Et si tu n'existais pas,

j'essaierais d'inventer l'amour

comme un peintre qui voit sous ses doigts

naître les couleurs du jour,

et qui n'en revient pas.

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Og hvis du ikke eksisterede,

Jeg ville prøve at opfinde kærligheden

som en maler, der ser under fingrene

Født dagens farver,

Og hvem tror ikke.

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som jeg aldrig ville elske.

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i denne verden, der kommer og går,

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Jeg ville have brug for dig.

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Og hvis du ikke eksisterede,

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Født dagens farver,

Og hvem tror ikke.

    De ce copii,nu luați în seamă,

Că aveți aceeași mamă 

V-am legănat cu aceeași mână,

Același sânge vă curge acum prin vână,

Din același piept v-am alăptat 

Cu același drag v-am sărutat 

    La fel de mult pe amândoi,eu vă iubesc 

Cât pe lume mai trăiesc 

De a -ți ști voi cât sufăr,

Cât plâng și cât mă supăr 

Că în loc să fiți uniți

Vă certați și dușmăniți.

    De ce mamă vă certați,

Că doar știți că sunteți frați 

Lumea rea v-a învrăjbit 

Până când v-a despărțit.

A-ți uitat a mea povață 

Să vă ajutați în viață 

  De lacrimi e udă fața 

Asta îmi scurtează viața.

Dați-vă măicuță mâna 

Deacum pentru totdeauna 

Că aveți și voi copii,

Și în curând mamă,ve-ți ști 

Cât necaz părinții poartă 

Când frații între ei se ceartă.

În astă seară mâna mi-am întins

Poate voi reuși să mângâi stele,

Dar cineva de acolo sus mi-a spus

Nu poți să le atingi și doar vorbi cu ele

Fără a sta prea mult pe gânduri

Mâna mi-am dus-o înspre buzunar,

Iar ochiul l-am țintit pe Ursa Mică

Pe steaua cel ajuta la navigat pe marinar

Și am vorbit cu Steaua Nordului

Să-mi fie far când calea rătăcesc,

Să-mi lumineze drumu-n noapte

S-ajung degrabă la fata ce-o iubesc

Nu știu dacă ce-am spus m-a auzit

Că n-am putut să mai repet dorința,

Că dintr-o dată cerul s-a înnourat

Și între noi s-a încheiat ședința

Voi încerca din nou și mâine seară

Să stau de vorbă și, cu alte stele,

Și poate voi avea puțin noroc

Să aflu, că una-i mama...dintre ele!

Quiet whispers of the night,
under the watchful moon's soft light,
My heart traverses miles, vast and wide,
to where you dream on the other side.
For you fly in realms far from mine,
across the span where stars align.
To bridge the gap, the distance cruel,
with words as tools, love precious fuel.
In dreams, I reach to steal you near,
dissolve the miles, remove the fear.
A whispered wish in the night embrace,
longing for your gentle grace.
Through screens and words, love's conveyed,
on the silent moments, our hopes laid
Little sparrow, my heart's soft call,
yearning for the day we end this stall.
To steal you from the bonds of space,
into my arms, our perfect place.

From "Volumul Istorie Opusă/Opposing History"