TO ESCAPE

I want to escape

Break the golden chain I thought was priceless

The oppression of doing what I don’t want to do

The feeling of being the slave of my own decisions

I want to escape

Turn off my worries about the future

To forget about deadlines and schedules

Ride only to nowhere without expecting to be scared

I want to escape

Shutting down devices and clicking on only my brain cells

Walking free over the green, the sand or the water

Think about nothing, need almost nothing, owe nothing

I want to escape

My past, my present and my future

The pain associated with the material

Throw away regret, get naked and live freely

I want to escape

But I have lost my will, my energy and my path

I can’t open my eyes wide enough to see

That I can live today, as it is now, and as I had desired.

I MISS MY FRIENDS

I miss my friends

The friends who were

In my one hundred and one lives

I miss the laughs and the tears

I miss the dreams of breaking frontiers

I miss the smart and the dumb

The beautiful and the ugly

The kid with the thousand soldiers

The one who taught me to kiss

The one who knew how to keep a secret

And the one who couldn’t wait to give it away.

I miss the one who was there to challenge me

The blond blue eyed of my first crush

The geek who trained me in a chess match

The great actor who would end up in the movies

The bad one who ended up in the trash

The teacher who asked me to tell stories

The painter who began to write

I miss the singer who gave me her record

The pianist who now plays on boats

I miss the friend who was taken away

And the one who decided to fly

I also miss the one who turned his back on me

The one who extended his hand.

I miss them all, I miss my friends

The friends who passed through my life

All of them leaving fingerprints in my journal

A journal I may be forced to terminate.