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i'm with jade, you have an excited audience waiting for your debut 🤓

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i love this, the cadence is perfect and i felt every word 🥹

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Thank u 🙏

Xoxo

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Alright. Here it is!! Sorry for the delay.

A free translation from my poem, originally written in Spanish in August 2023.

Love Better

Close your eyes.

Remember your childhood.

Go and find the kid

Who wanted

to conquer the world,

But reality,

Instead,

Broke their soul.

Dead inside,

As never before,

For taking too much time

To finally let go

Of that love.

And here I am

Once again:

A homeless without prize,

Who in the final race

Put all his money on that bet

For someone to say

There was no price

In the end.

A defeated body

Floating in oblivion.

Tales from the past

That are coming back

To remind me

All those times

Where they told me I had lost,

When I knew

It was a tie.

And where do I put

the emotions

That devotedly

I grew

in my room

and that now

don’t fit

anymore

in these walls?

To love better

Is not complicated:

It’s about coming together

And putting aside

All your demons and fears

For the love

That’s waiting outside.

To love better

Is not about impress anyone:

It’s waking up

And smile

To the heart

That is loving you back.

It’s reminding your loved one

That you’ll we be

Taking care

Of their worries

And fears.

To love better

Is necessary:

Although with every cold

And every death

We only want to

Hibernate.

To love better

Has made me wonder:

“How come I did not meet you before?

Or why it took us so long?”

But the true thing

Is to make sense

That there are lessons to learn

Everywhere.

I couldn’t love better

If I hadn’t met the one

Who broke me into pieces

And left me alone and confused.

I couldn’t love better

If I had never understood

What the pain means

When the person you love

Treats you like another John Doe.

I couldn’t love better

If I had never got

That in order to have

The best of two worlds

I needed to sacrifice one.

I couldn’t love better

If you hadn’t told me

That for the life I wanted to build

With you

You were not ready.

To love someone is scary,

Because it’s going

Into the unknown.

A place where we think we’ve already been,

But with every new love

It’s not the same as before.

And here I am once again:

An outcast of love

With no money nor prize,

But grateful to have

A heart that still works.

Because of feeling it all

I fear no more.

I’m afraid of not having the time

to do so.

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Please let me know your comments. Happy to hear them 🙂

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Nice to hear that, thank you!

Let me translate it to English and I’ll post it. Greetings from Mexico 💗

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Thank you always for your beautiful words. It reminds me of a poem I wrote that says: “I’m not afraid of feeling it all; I’m afraid of not having the time to do so”. Xoxo

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Aug 20Liked by alchemilie

I would love to read that poem! What a beautiful line…

This post resonated with me so much 😬 thank you xx

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