You Are His Without Being

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

Când în noapte se-aprind felinare,

Gândul meu zboară departe,spre tine,

M-aș transforma într-un fluture de-aș putea,

Zburând,m-aș așeza la tâmpla ta,

Să te veghez,să-ți fie bine...

Când pe cer se aprind stele 

Inima mea bate mai tare,

Vad chipul tău frumos în minte,

Lumina privirii tale,zâmbetul tău.

Iubirea mea e atât de mare 

Atât de strălucitoare,

Nici cerul n-o poate atinge,nici magnificul soare.. 

Cati cunosc oare povara iubirii supreme,

Când lacrima cade,când sufletul doare..

Dorul e o undă – o oscilație între ieri și acum,

propagându-se prin vidul din piept,

fără un mediu, fără o destinație clară.

Eu sunt punctul fix al pendulului,

iar el, gravitația care mă mișcă înainte și înapoi

pe o axă pe care timpul refuză să o definească.

Îmi imaginez atingerile lui ca fotoni,

particule de lumină care refuză să fie prinse,

dar, când lovesc pielea, generează căldură –

radiație pură, o ecuație a pasiunii.

Din distanță, ne privim ca două stele,

legate printr-o forță invizibilă,

un câmp gravitațional care îmi trage sufletul

înspre un orizont al evenimentelor.

Ce se întâmplă dacă mă apropii prea mult?

Legile îmi spun că mă voi pierde –

energia mea va deveni a lui,

și tot ce sunt va fi o singularitate

într-o lume care n-a învățat să mărească infinitul.

Dar ce e dorul, dacă nu o coliziune?

Două particule care se ciocnesc în vid

și lasă urme în spațiu-timp,

unde amintirile devin traiectorii curbe

pe care sufletele le străbat în tăcere.

Aș vrea să-l ating, să simt

cum forțele de contact îmi redau

toate legile pierdute ale fizicii.

Dar, de fiecare dată,

între degetele mele rămâne doar lumina lui,

ca și cum n-ar fi fost niciodată materie,

ci doar o iluzie a mișcării.

Și atunci îmi dau seama:

el nu e substanță, ci energie,

o constantă universală care,

oricât m-aș strădui să o prind,

se transformă mereu în altceva.

Dintre dune-mpădurite,

 Argeșul își cată

 cale,

Și-i căderea lui curmată

și urmată

de baraje și canale

Și o urbe basarabă.

Așezare-amestecată

Dintre multe neștiute

E știută, mai degrabă,

Catedrala ortodoxă – o biserică arabă.

Loc de basm șeherezad pe tărâm voievodal

E o perlă traforată,

O poemă sidefată.

Turlele unduitoare,

Într-un dans oriental,

Monahal

Taj Mahal,

Opalescent.

Dragoste mistuitoare

Necuprinsă,

Prinsă

-N piatră și ciment.

Peste vale,

Stau hotare pietruite

Între vremuri feudale

și prozaice clădiri

Actuale.

Cu iubiri,

Trăiri

Trăite,

Oraș-sat care preface visele în amintiri

Un decor pestriț de iurte

Șandramale

Blocuri, case, fabrici, hale

Peste vale

Și pe burți.

În trecut, oraș de Curte,

Astăzi, un oraș de curți.

Drumurile potecite

Sinuoase

Peticite

Rătăcite

Printre case

Ca în sat

Clopotele bat

Răcnite

Să anunțe-un răposat.

Un bătrân solemn și sobru ca un nuc

Ține pasul clopotelii, tălăngindu-și mersu-n cale

Cu bătrâna lui, agale,

Peste vale

Duc poveri de ei știute - și se duc.

Teii-ncolonați așteaptă

Lung de bulevard,

Horind ca un gard.

Parcă vor să însoțească

Oameni ce pășesc în șoaptă

Să nu rătăcească

Ori să afle scurtătură de la strada dreaptă.

Din pădurile arame,

Urși domesticiți

De foame

-Cum, necum-

Cu dulăi sălbăticiți,

Ca într-un safari

Stau la marginea răbdării

și de drum.

Schit pustiu la San Nicoară

În uitare,

Nepăsare

De muzeu

Ca un Colizeu

Depărtat de oameni, dară

Sus, în zare,

E apropiat de soare

și de Dumnezeu

Marius Boacă

Te iubesc simplu, fără teatru,

Fără cuvinte mari, fără decor 

Ca pe o respirație care vine

Și nu cere voie.

Te iubesc când taci

Și când spui lucruri fără sens,

Când îți cade lumea din mâini

Și eu încerc s-o lipesc cu privirea.

Nu e nimic spectaculos 

Doar eu,

Rămânând.

Și tu,

Fiind motivul.

Есенина читал когда-то,

Не понимал ни слова я тогда. 

Сейчас читаю рот открыв припадно,

Запоминая гениальные слова.

Мой друг ушедший в давние писания,

Сегодня в сердце как прекрасный сон,

Вся жизнь его полна была страдания,

С стихах его я слышу сердца стон.

Сегодня рифмы стали как проклятие, 

Как яд в душе все эти тошнотворные стихи.

и книгу я твою читаю как заклятие,

Чтобы от глупости от этой всей уйти.

În noaptea aceea fierbinte de vară

Eram doar noi și râul în care se oglindea luna

Și nu mai conta absolut nimic altceva

Pentru că eram împreuna sub veghea nopții

Ți-am arătat locul unde am învățat să înot

Să nu mă tem de val, să ma folosesc de el

Acolo a fost pentru mine a doua casă

Și acolo va rămâne pentru totdeauna

Pentru că unele locuri ni se ancorează adânc în suflet

Tânjim după ele toată viața

Și ne atrag ca niște magneți invizibili

Ca să ne întoarcem iar și iar

În oaza noastră de liniște

În grădina secretă

În templul iubirii veșnice...