You Are His Without Being

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."

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.

There comes a time of year

When the grand bargain begins,

Not on the streets filled with vitality,

But in the shadows of the necropolis.

That time when the Four O'Clock flower breaks,

Shattered glass strewn across morality,

Violins echoing through chrysanthemums—

An entire ballad of the false prophets.

And in such a dreadful realm,

The White Dahlia enters with petals shrinking,

Trembling as the winds begin to embrace her.

Two pairs of eyes seize her gaze:

One's Deadly Nightshade,

the other's Devil's Hand.

One is there to devour her soul;

The other to protect and shield her:

Unfortunately, all entities wear masks.

What gleams is venom,

What offers refuge seems lethal.

The first waltz with the broken,

virtuous entity Unfolds in darkness,

Flowers shivering in the aura that surrounds him.

Warnings drip from his affection;

Her vitality seeps into his mask.

The long, agonizing sway ends in tears.

The second dance with the wicked one

Casts beams of pearly light across the floor,

Flickers of hope and sparks tangled in mysterious smiles.

Tiny, precise steps lure her core into an abyss.

She blooms once more

Only to be severed again with the final sigh of her stamina.

What happened to them, you might ask?

Devil's Hand betrays his loving core, vanishing into obscurity.

White Dahlia, dripping tears of blood, continues to bloom

Brighter, fiercer than ever.

Deadly Nightshade aches still,

Hunting those ruby tears with insatiable hunger:

One astray, one reaching the focal point, one hollow within its own elegance.

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.

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.

Pleacă-n departare gândul purtat de-a dorului suflare,

Rătăcind prin colț de lume s-adâncește tot mai tare

Dar răzbate la lumină din nevolnicul abis,

Găsindu-și loc de răsuflare la un geam întredeschis.

În a soarelui lumină, păru-i strălucește parcă

Și asemeni unei stele luminează gândul meu.

În privire-i se citește numai doruri ce-o încearcă,

Ea, la piept îmi strânge poza, s-o privească îi e greu...

Se așează pe genunchi și cu dragoste în glas,

Ea, se roagă pentru mine, pentru noi și lacrimi

Cad din ochii ei albaștrii și pe obraz i-a mai rămas

Doar o urmă de bujori scuturați de dor și patimi!

Ploaia bate la fereastră, vântul suflă dinspre vale,

Gându-mi nu mai zăbovește și se-ntoarce pe-a sa cale.

A găsit la geamul tău forța ca să reușească

Pe cărarea ce-a ales-o, chiar de-i greu o să răzbească!

Te-am scris pe cer, dar ploaia mi te-a șters

Distanța dintre noi, pare că-mi fură pasul

Te-am tot cautat, dar vantul tot mi te-a dus

Mai departe... nu-ți mai știu ochii, nu-ți mai știu glasul.

Am fost insistentă față de tine

Și nu pentru c-aș fi obsedată de atenția ta

Pur și simplu îmi păsa, am vrut să fie bine

Urma să pleci...n-am vrut să doară lipsa ta...

Și-am insistat...ți-am pus pe tavă sufletul meu

Ți-am spus ce doare, cum mă simt...

Tu nici o clipă nu ai dăruit din timpul tău

Unui vin... unei calde îmbrățișări de sfârșit.

Am insistat și m-ai privit cu indiferență 

Îmi amintesc ades și sufletul mă doare

Cum ai tratat finalul nostru cu indolență 

Când tot ce îmi doream era... o_mbrățisare.

Oricât am insistat, ai plecat... și tot ce azi mă-nconjoară

Îmi este viață pură pe hârtie...

Și tot ce în mine ai atins vreodată 

S-a transformat în... nopți de poezie.

În câți ochi m-am oglindit,

Cu trecerea prin vreme,

Nici o privire n-a știut

Ca tine ,să mă cheme.

Tu ai înțeles izvorul

Dorințelor din ochii mei ...

Aminte-ți mai aduci?...

Și când mă vezi,din ochii tăi

Curg lacrimi și râd lacrimi;

Trebuie să recunosc

Cât sunt de fericit,

Că te iubesc ...auzi femeie?

Și văd că sunt iubit!!!!

Dacă n-ai putea... a mă iubi
Lumii spun, că tare-aș suferi,
Dar când iubirea-mi e în casă
Fericit trăiesc...lângă aleasă.

Dacă pe tine nu te cunoșteam
Eram un vânt, bătând în ram,
Și poate deveneam... furtună
Iar viața pe pământ, minciună.

Dacă, azi sau maine, vei pleca
Spre singurătate... aș aluneca,
Și m-aș ascunde-n astă lume
Om pribeag, făr' niciun nume.

Dacă vreodată inima ți-i tristă
Că anii se petrec și zic o vârstă,
Nu dispera, că toți îmbătrânim
Și la apus, pe Domnul întâlnim

Dacă, unul din noi se va-nnălța
La Cer zburând, că asta-i viața,
Cel rămas, s-aprindă lumânarea
Și pe icoană, să pună...sărutarea!

Pe scaun doar cămașa lui 

Luminează locul întunecat

Emițând în aer

Un parfum de liliac.

Un ochi căprui si unul albastru

Ce odată ma priveau

Ma făceau sa tremur toată 

Si-n brațe-i alunecat

Dansam un vals

Ce părea nesfârșit 

Cine putea sa ne avertizeze

De al sorții plan iscusit?

S-a dus iubirea mea

Și cu ea s-a dus și timpul 

Frunzele au căzut toate 

Prevestind anotimpul.

Adio,dragostea mea!

Eu aici,pe Pământ

Îți voi cânta seara de seara

Adormind plângând.

Și asa destinul ne-a despărțit

Ne-a lăsat singuri pe lume

Tu ești steaua de pe cer

Eu sunt fata fără nume!

Jumătate de iubire

Ce mă tine-n lanțuri grele,

Nici n-o pot lăsa să plece,

Nici da inimii ce cere...

Ca un picur ce alina

Dar nu stinge setea grea,

Ca un ochi ce vede câmpul,

Dar  ceata ia vraja sa...

Jumătate de iubire,

Ca un drog , și viața trece,

Însă visul  amăgire

Noaptea-n gândul meu trăiește...

E doar vis, e doar trăire,

Dar el zilnic făurește

Jumătate de iubire...,jumătatea ce lipsește...