You Are His Without Being

Sub lumina blândă a unei zile senine,

În grădina unde speranța se înfiripă,

Se deschid petale de iubire și căldură,

Pe alei de taină unde viața încă pulsează și respiră.

Cei care veghează, ca brazii tăcuți,

Cu mâini de lumină și zâmbet de flori,

Îndrumă pașii obosiți, cu glasuri de crini abia-nfloriți,

Și alinarea curge lin, ca un râu printre izvoare pline de dor.

Boboci și stejari cărunți,

Găsesc în atingere și cuvânt o primăvară nouă,

Învățând că-n fiecare clipă de suferință,

Se poate să înflorească curajul și speranța cea nouă.

Dragostea lor nu se rupe, nu se frânge,

E floare nemuritoare în clepsidra timpului,

Și chiar dacă umbrele trec peste clipele fragile,

Întotdeauna rămâne parfumul cald al grijii.

Și noi, ca frunze ce tremură la adiere,

Învățăm să fim răbdători, să ne lăsăm purtați,

Căci aici, în acest colț de grădină miraculoasă,

Durerea devine floare și speranță.

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.

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."

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.

Когда придёт пора — настрадаюсь,

В запутавшихся нитях и словах.

А пока — дай мне пожить мечтами,

Вкусить хроматику иллюзорных снах.

Дышу лишь запахом твоих волос,

Поправив прядь за тонкое ухо,

Толкую всю ночь с тенью грехов —

Лишь бы не впасть в ступор глухо.

Кружась с тобой в пьяном вальсе

Под тёплый, майский, нежный дождь,

Смотрим друг на друга в диссонансе —

И ты ждёшь, когда уйду я прочь.

Отпуская мысли в даль,

Мечтаем о любви и счастье,

Но любовь — сплошная жаль,

А счастье держит за запястье.

Шагаю утром по глухой аллее,

И не думаю о сне здоровом —

Мне уже так хочется лета,

И видеть тебя вновь и снова.

Странная фигня у нас с тобой:

От добрых слов я — бог и гром,

Но стоит всплыть мысли дурной —

И в голове уже дурдом.

Хочу я с крыши спрыгнуть вон

Иль сгореть в твоих объятиях.

Но я — всего лишь серый сон,

Утопая в багровых апатиях.

Знаю — я в болоте вязком,

Где ни конца, ни края нет,

Но не поддамся тревогам,

Даже если рая свет — не свет.

Затеряюсь в сказочных краях,

Заживляя ожоги на бледной коже,

Голова — как вбитая в гвоздях,

И тело всё истончилось тоже.

И даже если сраные хрущёвки

Пудрят мне мозги фальшивым чувством,

Не вздумаю я лезть в верёвки —

Я встречу тебя весенним утром.

Может, ты играла лишь со мною —

В интрижку или что нибудь другое,

Но я утру слезы тишиною

И честно выберу — второе.

Но всё равно — мне на игру.

Когда-нибудь, в холодную весну,

Я всё же к тебе приду —

И тихо прошепчу: «Люблю...»

Pe lume sunt 3 anotimpuri

Al 4lea este mereu

E anotimpul celor care

Stiu a privi cum stiu si eu

Cum vara trece ca nebuna 

Si primavara ti bate n piept

Cum iarna ti da fiori intruna

E toamna iar, n am sa te iert

E foarte-aproape ziua ta

Prietenă, iubită, soția mea,

În gând mi-a încolțit ceva

Să fur, să-ți dăruiesc o stea

Gândul m-a dus la Ursa Mare

Iar de la Car am pus cinci pași,

Și-am descoperit Steaua Polară

Semnul la Nord pentru înaintași

Am stat de vorbă și cu Ursa Mică

Cu cele șapte stele strălucitoare,

Care privind spre Steaua Nordului

Mi-au zis că făra Ea, lumea dispare

Atunci mi-am coborât privirea

Către pământul plin de floare, 

De unde fericit am strâns buchet

Să-l duc soției mele iubitoare

Așa că am lăsat stelele-n Care

Și-n Nord pe Cer Steaua Polară,

Să lumineze-n noapte ca un far

Și niciodată viața..să nu dispară!

Foșnetul,frunzelor

Răsunînd,în "Dansul"

Ușor,al vîntului

Meiestuos, sub clar de lună

Odrăzlit,sub pașii

Agale,la plimbarea

Sănătoasă,pe aleea

Amiabilă,,a Credinței

Tronul,vieții

Onorabile și Civilizate

A Bucuriilor,Familiare

Munciilor,demne

Naturale,ca recoltele

Ăăă...nețărmuite și Creștine

Diamantine,radiind

Etern,realizările

Virtuoase,în Lumea

Iubitoare,de Bine

Stimă și Credință.

Câți cavaleri plini de curaj

Nobili cu mari averi,

Toți te-ar dori a lor nevastă,

Neștiind niciunul că inima ți-e dată,

Că tatăl tău,Vasile Împărat deja te-a dat....

Dar cui...se vor întreba cu toții

Și cum este posibil așa ceva

Când Marele turnir urmează cât de curând...

Iar în duel se vor întrece toți aceștia,

Care nebuni de dragul tău

Pe rând vor și muri....

Ohhh câtă frumusețe trebuie să ai

Preablândă Vasilica,

Să te dorească atâția curajoși,

Iar ție nici să-ți pese....!

Să fie Horia Stănicel demn de-a ta iubire?

Și cine-i acesta de care nimeni n-a auzit?

Nu-i prăpăditul acela de poet

Care te-a cucerit cu multele poeme

Ce ți le scrie zilnic,

Și vrea până si degetele de la picioare să ți le fure cu săruturi?

Se pare că nu vrei secretul să ți-l spui,

E treaba ta frumoaso,

Te las acum că trebuie povestea s-o închei!

(3 martie 2024 Vasilica dragostea mea)