The Delirious Poet

 Have you heard the rumors yet?

            They say that I am a poet!

    I think they are going mad ...

         Me, a poet? Now, that’s a crazy notion!

     Don't they know that I simply

           write the verses that you inspire in me?

               Verses that emerge from my soul,

                    Verses that  bring me closer to you.

     Me, a poet? They are crazy… Crazy, I tell you!

            But what man, after having seen your beauty,

                would not be inspired to write you a poem,

        when you're a Venus among women?

             Tell them that you are my inspiration;

                    the masterpiece of God on earth,

                    and because of that, because of it….

                            I write these poems for you.

      Tell them that I have found in you

                   a love much greater than heaven’s,

and that I shall live forever through

       these… my poems of love.

      Have you heard the rumors of the people...?

       They claim that I’m a mad poet

                living hopelessly in love with you,

                        in a world they call delirium!

By Jag Garcia

© 1975 Translated: 12/29/99