Cositas Así

I walked through dark streets because I wanted to do poetry
and I examined other pupils because I thought I was a poet
and I designed an ambitious plan to finally reach happiness
and along the way, I have believed everything you can imagine
a promise, a hope, a messiah to save
because I thought big things are in me
and reaching the stars is my goal

and I keep thinking about the color of that sea

and the warmth of your body as we walk through my city
when we laugh about time at the table in my home

everything grand is scared by little things like that

by the pain that never goes away by sleeping without you

oh my life, you are little things like that.......like that

And when I hit the corners, I saw people like me
who, when asked their name, their voice broke
for forgetting everything that is real for dreaming and not wanting to wake up
and what is learned is so simple that it gets lost in the daily grind
all these screams are nothing compared to a whisper of desire
and I decided that only I can be myself, I am just one more
who just wants to see

take the gold, leave me the dawn

take it all and leave me the soul

leave me my people to have something to live for...always

and today I lie down under the sky and feel tickles in my being
and I laugh at myself in the face of such simplicity
far from me the stars will remain because only then
I can see them shine