Venus
Venus
I Walk without realizing what is happening around me
And yet, I feel your presence
I look at the orange sky and find you
As if watching me, you follow me everywhere
I feel like a ghost floating around
Imperceptible to the senses, incapable to change what is to come
You are the evening Star that lights my existence and fills my soul with hope
Why don't I understand what is happening in the heart of the world?
I close my eyes for a moment and try to imagine another place
imagining myself gliding through your volcanic plains,
climbing Sif Mons with my unshaken will
and dipping into your rivers of lava
And I whisper to you
Oh Evening Star Goddess of the sulfuric clouds
Ishtar of the east, war and love
Why do I feel apart from this world?
Feels like a dream of joy and sorrow
And in this dream I always know what to say or what to feel
But you do not let me lose myself in these dreams
Which only increases my longing for you my Aphrodite
I know that there is a sense in all that escapes my understanding.
My Evening Star, brightest of all
of illusory ashen light that carries my thoughts to the heights
Wake me
And take me back to where I belong
Copyright © Joseph Santiago | Year Posted 2013
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