Garden of Hollow Serpents

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.

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.

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."

It happened on one blue day

when my petals were bruised,

and my spirit almost hung itself,

no longer bearing the weight

of being an immortal light source

in a time of forgotten prayers.

I was nearly weeping

not in storms that swallow the world around me,

but in the language of scorpion grasses at dusk

soft, bowed, barely blooming.

He came like a gentle comet,

not as a man,

but as the guiding Hermes

a smile, soft as sacred crocuses,

carrying no judgment,

emerging from a cold land,

gently touching the unopened bud

of my fragile sorrow,

just to remind me:

someone still sees.

Then came the embrace

two arms wrapped around

like vines of honeysuckle

entwining the walls of my cold cathedral of solitude

with warmth and grace:

a tulip and hyacinth embroidery.

I did not flee from that sacred place,

not because I forgot Eros,

but because I remembered Persephone,

longing for the sun,

wandering through labyrinths of wonder

even in Hades' hasty gentleness.

But guilt arrived

on a shocking wave of pain,

measuring the weight of my heart

against a moment I did not ask for

nor did I deserve it,

yet I allowed it.

Not ashamed for desiring a mortal feeling,

but for that pale flicker of bloom

that rose inside my crimson heart

and dared to face the sun.

Yet even so,

I crossed no sacred boundary,

and kept my faith to Hera's vows

my trembling hand bore no corruption,

only the scent of oleander.

Now I return

to the sacred garden I tend with care,

to the altar of my chosen love,

where trust grows like lavender

at the gates of devotion.

He saw me unguarded,

but I see myself whole again

a celestial being reborn beneath the stars:

not untrue or disloyal,

only open,

only tender,

only alive.

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.

I am just a cub,

Alone in a garden of flowers.

And as much as I delight in being seen by others,

Ilong, with all my being, to finally know myself.

As the world pauses to take a breath,

I press forward with quiet courage.

Freedom unfurls its petals within me,

Opening in this very moment.

So I take the leap of faith, and jump.

At the beginning of that journey,

The garden feels as though it tears my flesh apart

A disturbingly pleasant sensation,

For I have walked among these realms before,

Before I even knew how to shape sound with my voice.

Without rushing,

Without making the water tremble,

The conscious mind gives way,

Leaving space for the adventure to blossom.

So it begins.

The traveler's portal opens its radiant chest,

And the cub passes through.

From that realm of truth, I drift back in time,

Peering through binoculars at ancient predators,

Studying their movements,

Tracing them like vines across memory.

Once, the creatures noticed my gaze

And though they attacked,

I escaped With only a scratch on my paw,

A scar like a thorn's kiss.

I return to the present garden,

But the traveler aches for more.

And so, it begins again.

The next realm blooms in Atlantis.

The cub now breathes beneath sapphire waters,

Transformed into a creature of the deep,

A flower of the ocean's secret garden.

I drift among coral columns and temple ruins,

Their stories flowing into me

Like nectar through a stem.

My touch gathers their forgotten whispers,

Petal by petal, memory by memory.

At last, the fuel of wonder fades,

And the traveler must return.

The garden door calls softly,

Its blossoms swaying in welcome.

I leap once more,

And with gratitude,

reality gathers me gently

Back into its fragrant arms.

De când Domnul a lăsat,

Adam și Eva a încălcat..

Porunca lui Dumnezeu..

Să nu guste mărul rău.

Șarpele ia îndemnat,

Să facă acest păcat.

Astăzi iar sa repetat..

Șarpele iar a îndemnat,

A adus semința lui ..

Dar al necuratului.

Drogul cu puterea lui..

Pe mulți a acaparat,

Mintea lor a tulburat.

E un iad adevărat,

Ce atrage nencetat,

Acest rău molipsitor,

De care nu scapi ușor.

Domnul ne poate scăpa..

RUGĂCIUNEA e calea..

Nu uita că Dumnezeu,

Orice poate, nu e greu..

Puterea lui este mare,

Ajută pe fiecare.

Tremură de frig bătrâna,

Motanu-n poală -i toarce,

Crapă sub tălpi țărâna,

O atinge vântul rece..

Suflă cenușa din cuptor 

Pe obrazu-i stafidit,

Meditând la viitor.

Se puse-n colț pe moțăit..

Iarna -i grea, omătu mare;

Oftează printre rânduri.

Bani de lemne nu are,

Doar niscaiva scânduri 

Găsite într-un tomberon.

De-ale gurii ca să aibă 

Șontâc pe un baston,

Bolmojind sub barbă,

Pe la porți cerșește 

Mila omului de rând,

Ce-n casă o primește,

Cu motanul ei plăpând..

corpul era o pară
una dintre cele mai mari pere
ochii pictați adânc în cap
praf de copt la subraț
căpșune în obraji
povestea ei, o plăcintă râncedă
cu răvaș
unul pe care a uitat să-l citească

dar micul ei magazin
mirosea a migdale

doamna Marieta
eram prea mică, nu înțelegeam multe
când toți copiii aveau jocul lor și
nu mă regăseam, apoi
mi-ai deschis apetitul pentru un limbaj unic
iubirea de zahăr, de singurătate
iubirea de lumină amenințată
de tăișul nopții
când zahărul se întărește pe prăjituri
în frigider

dacă a murit, nu știu
n-am văzut-o de ani de zile
magazinul mic are geamurile văruite
în parc, banca îndoită de șoldurile ei
nu mai are suflet
aerul din jur - lumea interioară
a unui mut
azi, plăcinte se fac peste tot
și doar congelate

doamna Marieta
această figură cumva indie, cumva plină de groază
în tremurul șoldurilor ei
halatul alb, de cofetăreasă
nu știam exact
dacă mirosea de fapt a clor
sau migdale
mâncam plăcinte extra vanilate
și privirea ei de femeie grasă
ocrotea cu milă anticipată
privirea mea de copil gras

ce doamnă,
Marieta
parcă și numele ei îmi aduce aminte
de aceste ciudate cafenii
femeia asta va rămâne mereu cu mine
pentru că s-a născut să miroasă a migdale

și a nefericire

De-ai dat cândva o pâine

Celui înfometat,

N-ai dat-o la oricine,

Ci lui Hristos I-ai dat!

Şi dacă în picioare

Pe altu' ai încălţat,

N-ai dat la un oarecare,

Ci lui Hristos I-ai dat!

Şi haina-ţi de-ai lăsat-o

Pe cel înfrigurat,

Nu orişicui ai dat-o,

Ci lui Hristos I-ai dat!

Lui Dumnezeu, creştine

I-ai dat ce-ai dăruit...

Şi uite aşa cu o pâine

Trăieşti la nesfârşit!

acasă,

nu era mereu locul liniștit și sigur

pe care mi l-aș fi dorit.

era adesea incertitudine,

răni deschise, ochi atenți 

și frici în lanțuri.

când eram mic,

mă rugam așa:

"Doamne, să fim toți bine, sănătoși 

și să avem tot ce ne trebuie.."

astăzi,

dorm pe aceeași parte a patului ca tatăl meu,

îmi pun la fel speranțe în oameni ca și mama mea,

încerc să găsesc o casa,

în care să nu mai fiu pradă,

să nu mai fiu rana,

rana altcuiva,

dar să fiu acasă.

Ghiftuiți scăldați în bogăție
Sterili de spirit și idei,
Sunt snobi cu solzi de viclenie
Mânjiți de vină și mișei

Lichele cu priviri morbide
Ați vândut și înșelat acest popor,
Păgâni născuți din pântece-ncrețite
Ați trimis din mulțimea la topor

Cu ochi crăpați de teracotă
Această țară ați otrăvit !
Uscate aveți suflete de cretă,
Ați trădat și ați mințit

Fiola vă va dilua destinul
Sfârșit va fi și pentru voi,
Căci boala ea va naște chinul
Să simțiți ,ce simțim noi.