Adobo Criollo Sergio Antonio Ortiz Rivera

caribbean bliss… if you’re hurting, lay it all on me, would you spend your life with me?

daybreak... magenta clouds cover the morning sky I miss you but I don’t know why

the stars begin to gather... I run but for you I want to stay

you are everything to me if I risk it all could you break my fall?

palms rustle... the bird secretly carries his likeness in her heart though they’ve never met

sonatas  in arabesque... a rattle of the mind you do not hear

I wait for the blood moon to rise… my chains are managed by the Keeper

the search is on… the phoenix rises again there is water in his eyes, fire and a death song on my lips

dancing boys of Afghanistan lift the air-- on my notebook watercolors splash like tears the first time I went hungry father tossed my food-- I carved the stone of starvation with water I was twelve when father sold me to a warlord … you cannot read loss only feel it* a broken heart never fully heals  yet my universe will not turn  into  a mighty stranger* *from Memoirs of a Geisha *from  Wuthering Heights 

a broken heart never heals properly... my universe has turned into a mighty stranger

someday I will be a grown man... mockery and isolation will not stop me

I was twelve when he sold me to a warlord you cannot read loss only feel it

one day  there will be no leaves  left on my tree this is a slow death where nothing remains

the first time I went hungry father tossed my food-- I carved the stone of starvation with water

dancing boys  of Afghanistan  lift the air--  on my notebook  watercolors splash like tears

I lie  on the grass  broken kneeling before you in the rain

love never hurt so good it's too long before I'm back in your arms in a trance

to those  who matter so much...  from where  is love to come  if not from raindrops

where  is the music now on the shores  of Lesbos?   where are my children? 

death boat to Lesbos illegal push backs