MAY I STILL HAVE YOU

I know that someday

I’ll be paid what I just did

God spare me from this day

May at least I still have you

 

You know that people fail the others

I’m sorry I have failed you

God spare me from this day

May at least I still have you

May at least I still have you

 

So many roles we have to play

But there’s not much time to rehearse them

Sometimes we act as if we were one

Then we realize we’re the other

 

I’m no exception to this rule

Imposed by and upon all men

May at least I say I’m sorry

I’ll try to be better then

 

Now I’m driving through this street

I’ve called you to came by and see you

But you’re still hurt, what can I do?

Some roles just speak louder than others

 

Take out your mask, so will I

And let’s just be us one more time

May at least I say I’m sorry

I’ll try to be better then

 

May at least I still have you

May at least I still have you

 

by José Ruy Pimentel de Castro

IN FACE OF THE UNKNOWN

The Thing

which can’t be seen

and of which nobody knows

 

Missing mass

playful with time and space

determining orbits and gravitation

 

How can something undetectable

influence the universe?

How can something unseen

be the main cause of the universe expansion?

 

Maybe human beings should know

about the existence of Dark Matter

and Dark Energy

 

Humans are so self-assured

They don’t realize:

 

If something unseen and undetectable

can influence the entire universe,

why are we driven by our earthly senses

and why do we care about matter?

 

Let Dark Matter and Dark Energy

teach us how to accept our insignificance

in face of the unknown

 

by José Ruy Pimentel de Castro

DELIGHTFUL HOME UNIVERSE

Hi there!

Would you like a piece of cloud?

Get some asteroids from my galaxy

to make it crispy

You seem to be lost. Want some help?

Just follow me…

 

This is my home universe

Delightful one, isn’t it?

I know you come from outside

But I’m not afraid of you, stranger

 

Jump these planets with me, will you?

Watch out not to fall

If I can’t catch you, you’ll fall forever

 

Don’t worry.

This muggy dirt you stepped onto

is just our neighbors’ sun

No, it’ll not burn your weird clothes

It’s an old and dying one, see?

(they envy ours, you know?)

 

Look behind

The fog you can see growing

when you look to my home planet back there

is there because we are leaving my home galaxy

 

Now, things get a little more dangerous

…

Don’t look at me like that!

You’ll do fine!

(But this I’ll have to whisper

There’s an outcast around here

Vile and despicable

Only people who have seen it far away

Had had the chance to warn the rest of us

Everything or everyone it comes close to, disappears

It’s called the Black Hole

If you see it, run as fast as you can

Get into one of these dusty rings

And wait for it to go)

 

My head starts aching

This is the end for me

I can’t go no further

Can you see? My leg started to twist

and I can already see myself reflected

as if I saw a ghost

in the strange passing time of the space ahead

Out there is the multiverse

ruled by different physical laws

Goodbye, stranger

Go into the multiverse

and let me return to my small, single (uni) verse

 

One day I’ll be old enough

to go into the multiverse

… and one day I’ll live forever

to come to know the Third Sky

(which is after the multiverse, by the way)

Ever heard of it?

It’s out there

But if you want to go there

you have to be able to reduce yourself

to particles

(that’s the only way you can go through the eye of a needle)

 

Hope I have helped you

Hope you the best

Let me go back to the safety

Of my delightful home universe

 

Oh… let me just confide you something

I could take myself in an instant

wherever I wanted to

I’m a child, you know?

I know the Kingdom

where you are possibly going

…

But you are a grown up

so I had to guide you

step by step

The part of you

that would take you anywhere

with the eyes closed

is long gone

I wish you could just pop up into the Third Sky

but you can’t

 

So, go into this multiverse

Beware of the different things

will be presented to you

Try to find the traces of the infant

you once were

This way, in the end of the multiverse

you’ll soon find yourself

in the Creator’s arms

 

by José Ruy Pimentel de Castro

EPIPHANEIA

From the bottom of the ocean

Dark is broken by

glowing eyes

 

They look up and stare at me

I can feel their envy

Hidden frenzy

 

I was made to rule the Earth

but the Earth is not for me

even though I’m swimming here

…

In an instant, something changed

…

From a hot and thirsty land

look up dazzled eyes

Glorious sky

 

They look up and stare at me

I can feel their fear

Fallen tear

 

Now I’m made to serve the kingdom

It took long to finally come

Now I see Him on His throne

 

It was my faith what made me just

Now I’m part of eternity

But I’m sad for those who are not

I’m just glad I wrote this before everything happened…

 

From the words you read right now

you may have a chance

Broken heart

 

All the stain’ll be washed away

You may live forever

New omega

 

by José Ruy Pimentel de Castro

AT THE SPEED OF SOUND

I’m only just one more wave

travelling the vacuum

at 768 mph

 

I bring a message

from a dark place far away from here

Would you like to hear it?

 

I am the messenger

of collapsing environments

of coming-to-existence galaxies

of fading planets

and of dying stars

 

If you come across my path

you’ll come to know all that I know

and if you say anything,

or produce any sound,

I’ll spread it to the rest of the universe

And I’ll keep going my way

 

Please, don’t be grieved about it

It’s my job

It’s what I was born to do

I was made to be cold,

I was made to be careless

 

I’m a curse, you say

I tell you, maybe…

but you have to admit it

without me the universe would be boring

 

I don’t care about consequences

I don’t care for who might get hurt

And even if you like me today,

You’ll hate me tomorrow

As a wave, I’m everywhere

and I’ll eventually return to you

 

Then, I’ll go away

to tell somebody else that…

 

I am the messenger

of collapsing environments

of coming-to-existence galaxies

of fading planets

and of dying stars

 

…

 

and you were my latest news

FROM THE INSIDE OUT

The black cloud

is going away

The winds are tearing it apart

There’s nothing above my head

But the sun shining bright

 

I haven’t counted the hours

since the day it got here

I had just finished the harvest

and suddenly I felt:

FEAR

 

Chilly winds started blowing

right away

And the light abruptly vanished

 

I was totally alone

in the farm

In my little wooden house

 

Far from others

Unreachable

 

Then I saw those blood-red eyes

contemplate

what my life had just became

 

Staring from the window

Smily, evil eyes

 

What was day right then was night

Lifelessness

Desperation came to stay

…

I could no longer take it anymore!

I was a prisoner in my own house

due to outside issues

I had to stop what was happening

And that would have to be from the inside out

…

Then I opened my heart and cried

To the one who has power over all things

He heard my humble cry

And now I see it:

 

The black cloud

is going away

The winds are tearing it apart

There’s no fear above my head

But the tender savior Christ

 

No more eyes of accusation

No more loneliness or night

The black cloud

is going away

The winds are tearing it apart

There’s nothing above my head

But the sun shining bright

 

by José Ruy Pimentel de Castro

PLANETS AROUND THE STAR

We are in a certain position

in the universe

And there is a bigger star

We gravitate around it

This star is in the center of our universe

whether we like it or not

 

And it’s this last fact

that determines how long

our solstices are

 

Some of us are aware of this star

in the center of our universe

It is this star that gives us warmth

and light

Therefore, we want to be closer to it

and our solstices are short,

almost irrelevant

The solstices exist,

but they are soon forgotten

 

Some others are also aware of this star

in the center of their universe,

but they may not understand its existence

and, therefore, this star is not real for them

even though the star gives them warmth

and light

So, they want to be distant from it

and their solstices are longer,

They are centered in themselves

and they like to live alone

in their universe

They are blind to see

(or pretend not to)

the protection and benefits

this star gives them

They are cold and lonely

and life itself is not possible

in a place like this

 

My fellow friends,

we are part of this universe

We cannot run from it

We cannot hide from this fact

Let’s learn to love this star

and be grateful for the existence of it

Our own existence depends on this star!

Let’s make our solstices shorter

and I assure you

…

our universe will be much warmer

and our existence filled with purpose

if only we quit liking

the long solstices

the dark side, freezing part

of our ego-centered lives

 

by José Ruy Pimentel de Castro

BLACK HOLE

I’m a Black Hole

and I’m in your universe

What does that mean? I’ll tell you

I’ll eat you

I’ll devour you

Till there is nothing left

My ego destroys

You know that and I know it also

But we just can’t live

without one another

We hurt each other

We know of our imminent death

but in our hearts

(or what is left of it)

being far from one another

is not worth living

So let death come, my little star,

we will live the best of what is left

up to the ultimate moment

 

by José Ruy Pimentel de Castro

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