Saturday, June 30, 2007

Final Poem

on March 30, 1961 our suicidal brother, of 27 years  of age David Ledesma Vázquez was found hanged with the same tie he used every day to go to work. His homosexuality found no place in that society. He left a daughter whose existence they concealed from him

This poem was found in his shirt pocket wore on the night of his suicide.

El Poema Final
De pronto,
como cortado o incompleto,
como un silencio nada más,
desciendo,
como una sequedad en la garganta,
como una pausa en que vacila el aire.
Amor mío… Amor mío…
¿Qué cosa puedo darte?
Tú me has dado tan solo tu presencia,
tu sonrisa y a veces tu aliento,
una proximidad nada más.
Yo te regalo un muerto. Cuídalo bien.
Es tuyo.
Solamente recuérdalo,
cierta fecha de octubre
porque donde tú naces yo termino.
Y mientras tú me pienses, viviré.
De pronto
toda la vida se hace un punto,
se hace un grito,
se hace la más perfecta y dulce música.
Perdóname, hija mía. No conozco
sino tu leve risa de inocencia.
Perdóname si sola, si desnuda,
si limpia te he dejado;
torno a la soledad. Allí he vivido.
Perdóname, tú, madre.
No me entienden.
Si un ruido horrible suena en la cabeza,
si una cosa sin nombre nos agobia,
si algo estalla de pronto… ¿Qué ha de hacerse?
El prudente tal vez buscará un medico,
el ocioso tal vez dejará estarse las venas en su sitio,
pero el que es todo corazón y siente
por el pellejo igual que las arterias,
¿qué ha de hacer, me pregunto?
Si de pronto
uno repugna ante uno mismo.
Si cada corazón,
cada pulgada
de íntimo dolor pesa y resuena
como pasos andando por adentro,
como trompadas…
Amor mío, perdóname. Lo sé.
Ahora ya puedo amarte. Nada más.
puedo decir que estoy en ti, que vivo
libre, sin huesos,
como un aire vivo,
como algo que sí puedes amar.
Ah! lo demás. Ya lo demás no importa…
Simplemente no se es.
No quedan huecos.
Apenas un momento de silencio
y nada más.
La rueda sigue andando.
El Molino no deja de moler.
Ni nadie pierde su trabajo a causa de un tornillo que se rompe.
¿Lloran? No sé.
yo no he querido el llanto.
Adoro las inmensas bocas frescas
que se abren al impulso de la risa.
Y la música adoro. Y la alegría.
Y las cosas más limpias de los seres:
por ejemplo, los besos, los adioses,
la mano que se pone sobre el hombro,
los niños y los perros indefensos.
Pero de pronto es necesario irse.
De pronto es necesario ser no-ser,
abrirse una ventana,
o acabarse
sencillamente
como podremos hoy, mañana o el Domingo
tú, yo o fulano
hacer paréntesis,
borrarse del paisaje, hacerse humo.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

I just can’t believe how much I’ve grown up

I just can’t believe how much I’ve grown up in a week, in two days I did things I never expected to do, or believe I could do by myself. I made it to the social service with Aiacos in the garden, all by myself! 
There is so much to do now and so little time, but I am worried about Aiacos, I mean he is kind of distant now, well actually he is always like that when he is with Edgar he just prefers to be with him, I know I’m not an easy person to be with, but I really thought I was his best friend... I must have screwed it up. I just want him to... be with me, how dumb.

(16 days late)

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

I am tired and bored of looking for happiness...

I am tired and bored of looking for happiness... sometime I doubt it actually exists, even when I see heaven I doubt it, but why is that? I forgot about love. What is love anyway?
Let’s look at Xena and Gabriel, that’s definitely love, it’s amazing that fight and redemption could actually make that kind of love. I mean they are so different but after all they have been through its impossible not to love each other. I mean Gabriel gave up everything she had worked on so hard to save Xena. It just that when love is so strong anything else matters. 
Now look at Tintin and Tchang or Milou. Tintin loves both and it willing to give his life for both. Tchang helped Tintin on the Blue Lotus and its unbelievable how a deep love and just sensing he is alive without any prove goes and risks his life in Tibet to save him. Milou is also special, love for a being without asking anything in exchange, that's amazing. Captain haddock is no exception, he may not look like but he would never leave Tintin alone, even if his life is in danger too, they may not be soul mates, but is the true friendship love. Maybe that’s what I have with Aiacos.
Look at the dc universe, fist the Kent family took in a child they found, in adoption and raised him as theirs. Imagine the commitment to actually do that, to give your life for someone who needs it. Now just look at superman, having that power that gift and fight for mankind, for what’s right,, to give up your power to do anything… anything and live life to save the world… to save the world, the biggest commitment of love, to give yourself for everyone, that makes a hero, and I have always love heroes. 
The simple idea of being a hero and save the world is amazing. 
“Don’t cry for a world that fights; fight for a world the cries”.



(11 days late)

Saturday, May 5, 2007

So cruel….

This guy who saw this diary online wanted to be friends with me and I haven’t let him, that’s so cruel…. He really gives me a weird sensation and has terrible writing. Everything is so screwed up, and I continue studying with no changes… is so pathetic.
Aiacos is such a creep and a bastard, he really makes me feel bad, but I keep hanging out with him. It’s a vicious thing. I’m still waiting for that special person for, but I seriously doubt he/she actually exists. It wasn’t Minos, and I can’t seem to forget Nicolas either, I dreamed with him the other night, it was my birthday and he came over, god he looked great, I remember I took him to the kitchen and made him stand still, and then I hugged him in such a way… 
I need to be hugged like that. 
I now see that he was much more grown up than me, or at least that’s what I think. It is hard for me to sometimes look back and see that I was actually the childish person… or maybe I was the evolved person then and I have un-evolved now and understand the un-evolved too. I don’t think that makes any sense. But need it to say it. Just to say anything, even if it’s totally absurd.
About studying everything is still the same, but my grades are still going down, down, down, down… I’ll probably lose this year, there is just no motivation to go on, absolutely none. I’m scared because I might take Aiacos with me, but what the heck. Everyone tells me that it is something I everyone must go through, like it or not. But I just don’t get it, I mean; I can’t stand doing something I don’t want to do just because everyone has done it. It shouldn’t be that way.
I’d like to do something, for example I dream of leaving all and go to Asia and learn stuff. I probably wouldn’t last long, but is like something you should do. I guess I need a radical change in my life, like a key event or a near death experience.
 Now I have been thinking of faking a suicide, like to try to make someone see I have problems.
 How come no one sees how I am feeling? Probably is the same way I don’t see what all others are feeling. Or I know how they are feeling but I just try to ignore it. I keep on thinking on myself, but not in others, I am selfish. 
I guess that to get interested in other and understand them I must need to know and understand myself. Or maybe not.


(22 days late)

Monday, April 23, 2007

Chanson of a Lady in the Shade.


Chanson of a Lady in the Shade. 
When the silent one comes and beheads the tulips:
Who wins?
Who loses?
Who walks to the window?
Who’s the first to speak her name?

He is one who wears my hair.
He wears it much as one wears the dead on one’s hands.
He wears it much as the sky wore my hair that year when I loved.

He wears it like that out of vanity.

That one wins.
Doesn’t lose.
Doesn’t walk to the window.
He does not speak her name.

He is one who has my eyes.
He’s had them since gates have shut.
He wears them like rings on his fingers.
He wears them like shards of sapphire and lust:
since the autumn he has been my brother;
he’s counting the days and the nights.

That one wins.
Doesn’t lose.
Doesn’t walk to the window.
He’s the last to speak her name.

He’s one who has what I said.
He carries it under his arm like a bundle.
He carries it as the clock carries its worst hour.
From threshold to threshold he carries it, never throws it away.

That one wins.
Doesn’t lose.
Doesn’t walk to the window.
He’s the last to speak her name.

With tulips that one’s beheaded.

 

Paul Celan committed suicide by drowning in the Seine river in Paris, around April 20, 1970. 

Monday, April 16, 2007

Prayer


Prayer

No more dawns or customs,no more light, no more jobs, no more instants.Only earth, earth on the eyes,between the mouth and the ears;earth on the crushed down breasts;earth inside the dried up belly;earth pressed under the back;along the half-opened legs, earth;earth between the hands lying there.Earth and oblivion. 


After suffering a long depression, María Mercedes Carranza took her own life on July 11, 2003 in her Bogotá apartment after taking an overdose of antidepressant pills.

Next to her were her father's verses (Eduardo Carranza) and a letter for her daughter.

Sometimes I dream of her and I feel accompanied.
I leave here a
T
E
A
R
for her.

Friday, April 13, 2007

I got the need to lie, and I end up making up a story to someone I appreciate

I got the need to lie, and I end up making up a story to someone I appreciate, I told him the story about Obsidian and me, but like if I was the victim. I hate myself for doing that, I continue lying even when I promised I wouldn’t do it anymore… it’s sick.
Miscellaneous reflections

Who says what craziness is? To believe you are not crazy is just crazy, and to believe you are capable of deciding who is crazy and who is not, is craziness itself.
To judge without knowledge, isn’t it the worst crime?
“The real cool thing about writing is that I can say whatever I want” – Grace manning
Why can’t I do whatever I want?
Why I am a prisoner of myself?
Why I am not happy?
The problem resides in the human nature of placing limits to absolutely everything; we are filled of yes’s and no’s, dos and don’ts, good and bad.
“There is no good and evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it….”

I’m such a looser, now with no computer I have so much to say … but I’m just totally blocked
What kind of person am I? What kind of person will I become? 
“Have you ever found out yourself being a much horrible person than what you really are?” 
How do I get to magic? 
I can’t believe myself asking this question, I mean, I was supposed to be the magic one. 
Who am I anyway? Does anyone really know me? Why I am not happy? Why I am not magical? Why am I, not me? Where is my heart? Am I free? Am I in hell? You know what? 
Now it turns out all we learned at school during the years before is going to be actually useful?
 I just don’t want to think anymore. 
I wish I would never go back home. 



(9 days late)