Salvie Rosales

My friends can say in just few words
Which I cannot say in many words.
That I am somebody, I am worthwhile
I am important and I have sweet smile.
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My first love understood me well,
He’d ask me question-the questions,
But……
He’d never knowing how I felt,
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After you’re gone,
There shall be starlight still
Shimmering silver o’er our trysting hill;
There shall be music yet,
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You wonder why my feelings
For you, my love, are sung,
And never plainly phrased by
The unaffecting tongue.
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Curious the changes wrought by Time and Fate
These voiceless echoes only ghost can hear
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“You are my One Beloved, ”
He whispered yesterday.
How sweet a song it seems to me,
And sweetest sung his way.
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While the enamored stars would dare
Seaward to leap,
Seeking a truer heaven in
The loved deep,
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If only the Code within these lands
Allowed all impulse to govern the heart,
We should not feel this fever if the hands
To leap the gap that keeps us so, apart;
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I
I waited, Love. All Nature waited, too;
The dust of air for flower-scent and song,
The sky for moonlight and the earth for dew-
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Be fair, beloved. Is this all you offer
For my long wait; one moment’s ecstasy,
Brief as the beauty shooting stars would proffer?
Ah, if you knew what fears had fretted me!
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I must remind you evening fast is fleeting
And like the shadows you shall soon depart.
Translate then into words your pulse beating,
I shall hold silence while you speak your part.
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I
My moment of passion so easily shared
Great happiness that can never be compared.
So many have tried such feelings to spare
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Were I to meet you face to face again
And hear your voice as in remembered days,
With mellow laughter clipped in now and then,
And note dear traces of your wonted ways,
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My heart new only hate for you at first,
Seeking your laughter priced at my pain,
The sating of your spirit at my thirst,
Sun of your heavens, at my heaven’s rain.
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I could have stilled all memory of you,
Left in the world that had known your glance;
But here the star, the moon, the flower, the dew
Remember how your eyes caressed them once.
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Love is my need; cannot live without it,
Love is my need; and so I love again.
My earth revives, and all the skies above it
Light up anew and urge the idle pen.
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I saw your new love, and I noticed how
Her wavy hair the oval of her face,
The lips and eyes, the lashes and the brow,
Resembled mine in near uncanny ways,
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I
Rose in a garden
Wept to the sky;
Descend, O Rain,
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It makes you cry and laugh
It makes you ill and well
It makes you hot and cools you down
It makes you feel bad and good
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I have loved badly, loved the great
Too soon withdrawn my words too late
And eaten in an echoing hall
Alone and from a chipped plate
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