Moon in Fire

by Uel Ceballos, circa 2003

It was late in the evening I was walking,
the night was obscure and quite tingling.
Emotion was blend with the insects crooning
from the nearby bushes there were crickets sounding.

I was walking alone and no one was around.
In my hand was my guitar and I sat in the lawn.
I started to strum and the night began to hum
The wind gave a kiss and the trees
commenced to dance.

The shadows in the grasses were moving
left and right.
The mystic moon above showered the
night a beaming light.
I was amazed when I looked to the sky
because encircled by the stars above was a
a moon in ardent fire.

The night wind blew and I shivered
It made me sad, it was you I remembered.
In this night so bright we were walking together
with our hands entwined in that cold
night of September.

Though I knew that we were now afar
Somehow I thought that you were wishing
on the same star
As I prayed in the meadow while the
scarlet started to bloom
I stood upright and watched the blazing moon.

Duped by Fate: The End of Dissimulation

by: Uel Ceballos

Woman:

I Love You...

Emotionally moved by your constant presence

Clasped in the arms of compassionate solicitude

I rested there in fetal curve, in my new orb with you

Man:

This is goodbye now forevermore...

For I have lost myself again in the sea of deception

Forgive me for pulling you down in my doomed world

Just when I thought you could light up my world,

I have darkened yours.

Woman:

You tugged me out from the entangled web of doom

From what seemingly an inescapable derangement

Hand entwined, we hurried on our way out

From the intricate spun of paths that we were both caught into

Man:

We were both the darkness searching for the light

How blind was I to not see? What have I done?

You were strong as the stag but your heart was like the sand

Pristine and granting, but weak to the cruel ocean.

Woman:

A dose of sweet escape anesthetized us from the searing sorrow

Our analgesic to the scorching ache of our detrimental past

You were my asylum, as well as I was yours

We created an estranged world, a refuge for us alone

Man:

Have you not seen that I was the merciless salt on your wound?

I wasn't the cure but I was the catalyst on your slow death

Yes you were my sanctuary, but I was your hell

In your world I spread horrors

I wasn't worthy to be your man at all

Woman:

Until in one of those twilight you unburden the hidden truth

You plunged deeply into my heart the dagger of veracity

I was just an ephemeral deliverance from your concrete existence

But never would I be your lifetime reality

Man:

For I was eternally jailed to the terror of my past

To which you were never a part

How could I take you for granted when all you needed was to be loved?

But if you were on my shoes would you rather walk the path?

Woman:

I have fallen once again in the delicate mesh of deception

Man:

Fate was ever so cruel to me

I was forever the subject for its insanity

Woman:

For how could a fallacy finds a room where everything seemed so good and true?

Man:

Not until your departure that it was revealed to me;

The life indeed was full of ferocity

Woman:

For you I was just a sweet illusion, but for this I couldn't go on

Man:

What took so long the light in you?

When I finally saw it

Woman:

This is goodbye now, forevermore...

Man:

It was out of my grasp anymore

I love you...