lunes, 27 de enero de 2014

Lo hice de negro


Te pinté. Hoy saqué los pinceles y la caja de pinturas de debajo de la cama y te pinté del único color que me quedaba: negro. La luz a mis espaldas formaba siluetas que se escondían de mí, temiendo quedar mezcladas con la pintura debajo de mi pincel, pero ansiando ver eso que antes no existía sobre mi pared y que ahora ha de quedar grabado hasta que me canse de vivir.
Las ansiosas figuras se asoman por detrás de mis cortinas, delante de la guitarra y al lado del librero. Su miedo se disipa y se llena de curiosidad. Quieren ver a la brocha que ahora llevo en mi mano izquierda tatuar eso de lo que nadie jamás ha de hablar. Sí, en mi mano izquierda dije. Izquierda como todo lo que no es derecho, como lo chueco, como lo herido, como lo deforme. Así lo pinto y lo disfruto y saboreo todas las curvaturas que mi mano inconsciente traza por falta de práctica, por no saber que existía y que podía pintar todo lo que ya había pintado la derecha, si acaso con otros colores y en otros matices.
No hay más sonido que el de mi mano frenética y el de mi respiración acelerada.  Necesito pintar. Siluetas de todos los tamaños y formas se proyectan sobre mi cabeza y ya no huyen, tampoco se esconden. Se abalanzan y pelean por acercarse más y poder ver mejor esa plasta que ya no sé si se parece más a ti o a mí… Comienzan a producir un sonido mudo que me enchina la piel y ya no sé si pienso o trato de pensar que pienso para no dejar que entren en mi cabeza y se lleven lo poco que no eres tú y que aún soy yo. El negro de mi delineador, que ya se ha corrido, contrasta con el rojo, el naranja y el amarillo que aún baila en el fondo de mis pupilas y que se niega a desaparecer entre todo esto que hemos creado. Cierro los ojos. Los aprieto fuerte… ¡más fuerte!
Cuando los abro, las siluetas se han ido. Estoy sola y mi cuarto no es negro, sino amarillo por la luz que sale del foco. Vuelvo a pintar. Te pinto a ti. Te pinto de negro porque no se me ocurre de que otra manera hacerlo.

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domingo, 26 de enero de 2014

Inside an empty head


It is not human to feel the way I do. It is not right to want what I want to do. Could I choose to be someone else in a different place and time and still be faithful to my true self? Why would this desire come striking me hard and keeping me awake if it wasn’t meant to be? Why am I still here if I’m supposed to be somewhere else?
I think I should disappear. I should tear my eyes out and forget to see what’s real so the only thing left to see were my dreams. I should forget to see you, and remember how it felt like to dream and never look back. No regrets, no doubts no misinterpretations of what words mean or do not mean. Oh, how I wish I could leave it all behind!
It is not fair to live holding back. It is not right to live as if we had many days ahead. I should take the high way and walk at the brink of disaster… just enough to make my heart beat fast, just enough to make sure it’s never slowing down.
As the day gives into night, I think about the excuses that keep me tied down to this room, to this place, to the morning I’ll wake up to tomorrow. All the dreams slipping away wave goodbye; tired of being kept in my head… tired of not been given life. They fade away under the darkening sky leaving me inside an empty head: a busy and hurried head with no time for closing my eyes.
Could it be this is all there is in store for me? Is this really what’s meant to be?
How I wish there was more than this…



domingo, 5 de enero de 2014

It is raining in New York




It is raining. The subway stops abruptly, and I say good-bye in a hurry, not sure they understand what I’m doing or where I’m going. This isn’t our stop. I think I catch a glimpse of them exchanging stares as they see me disappear amidst the crowd. I open my umbrella as I climb out of the subway and head into the rain that appears to be growing more as I come out. Now, where was it? I take out my phone to check the address of the knight in the middle of Central Park. No one is heading there with this weather.
People are fleeing in all directions. A couple runs into a coffee shop soaked and laughing, and I realize my lips are curving up a little. I sigh. A strange excitement runs though my body, not electrifying it… this is different. It is like warmth and chills at the same time. My heart is rushing out of expectation and the blood is flowing all the way to each tip of my fingers keeping the cold away even now that my feet are wet and my hair is sticking to my face. I take in the view of the red and blue neon signs over the restaurants, of the outside staircases, of the oaks and its wet leaves…I take in the smell, mixture of coffee and wet dirt, reaching my nostrils and the heat coming out of each open door I come across. If I could only take a picture of it all… of this moment with every single detail, of the people, rushing, of my shoes, splashing over the concrete trying to avoid the rain and yet enjoying getting soaked in it, of this happy anxiety of doing something silly and yet of something that feels completely right…
I reach the street next to Central Park. The light is red, and I wait impatiently for it to change. People are too busy looking for shelter to stop and look at where I’m heading. I laugh at myself. What am I doing? The light turns green. I rush between the trail of trees and walk following the signs that say “Turtle Pond.” Oh dear, I really hope I don’t get lost. As I’m thinking this, I climb across a small mount and there he is. With his back towards me, he waits. The knight in bronze armor… my knight. The rain isn’t as strong as it used to be, but I can feel the chills now. As I stare at him, I get the feeling I have stopped breathing. I’m not sure if I want to smile or cry, so I do a little of both. I’m not sad… I’m happy. I’m happy sad.
 One year, five months and some days ago, he was here. He stood where I’m standing, and took the picture I’m about to take. He saw exactly the same thing I’m seeing now: King Jagiello.  It was him who led me to this place. He wanted me to see what he saw and now I have. I feel him so close… The King isn’t a king anymore, but a knight. And somehow, even in the distance, he is my knight.
This rainy evening in Central Park is ours, and it will always be. This is the place where we met. This is the closest we have ever been. 



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