I thought the sunset would be forever in my eyes as I looked at you. Seeing myself through your imagination I stare in wonderment at the beauty you see in me. I clasp my hands together feeling your heart beat and I cry as the depth of your feeling for me overwhelms my senses I tremble at the intensity of the way you feel when we kiss and I die one thousand times when you touch me when you know me when we melt as butter into one another’s arm you read my thoughts before I write them immortalize my words in etchings you create for me for us you never leave me alone you never leave me standing you always have me when I fall never missing a beat you capture my wind and hold my hand when I don’t have the courage to ask and I smile at how you know me my heart flutters here you are catching me once more as I fall…..in love with you.
First Edition Translation of Teselas by Carmen Crespo X111 César Simón Poetry Prixe 2016 Translated from Spanish by Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospíde