Snuffed Out

The spark that your eyes had
whenever you used to see me
is no longer there.

The voice that used to allude me
is no longer singing,
have the flowers in your garden dried?
Have the fire in your veins snuffed?

Where is that spark of your stars?
and the warmth of your fire?
That used to be my comfort,
in the middle of my emptiness.

But soon, perhaps,
was the dark water of my emptiness
that snuffed your passion off?

Little by little, your voice stopped singing,
little by little, the clouds of your storm dissipated,
but now I understand
that nature is indifferent;
which is why I don't cling
like I used to do.

But realizing this indifference
does not make the pain of it all go away,
it lessens the torture but the thorns are still there.

(c) Pekky Marquez, 2007

Nebulla

Holding your hand until you say a prayer,
I look for you among a thousand faces
Longing for you from a Distant Galaxy
I look at the Stars, but your soul is not there.

The sky is high, the cold chills my bones,
your eyes are dead mirrors in which my face reflects,
holding your absence, while I try to fire matches against it
makes my body bruise, and feel a deadly pain.

Loving you is like being the mistress of death,
And I try to take comfort in the delusions surrounding me.
Love is a flower that spills honey for some,
but for me, it is a poisonous pen with a heavy iron hand.

Perhaps I don't know how to enjoy the chains,
while I am not sure if this longing is mine,
I just know you are in a far away galaxy
and the only language you know is that of delusions.

I prefer to float in the dark,
making love to the thick velvet waters,
because that is the only peace I can have
without stopping being alive.

(c) Pekky Marquez 2007

The Harp and the Abyss

The naked harp keeps sounding,

With echoes and darkness

As I keep looking down

the dark abyss.

It is an alien silence,

of a death that touches me

and ghostly I am

looking at its depth.

All I do is shout,

melodies with no memories

while the harp keeps harping

in my loneliness.

All I hear is echoes,

but I don't see a hand,

Only a dim light coming from me,

but the rest is dark.

I look at that dark abyss

which is like death and birth,

if there is light at the end of the tunnel

this tunnel does not have it.

All I see is a dark abyss

of depth untold,

feeling afraid to fly on it,

because I don't know

whether this is a cage,

or a tunnel with light at its end.

And the harp keeps sounding,

its strings are made of my nerves,

every string this harp has

gives me pain.

And all I can do is shout

unsure of scape or end,

usure of whether this is

birth of death.

And the alien silence,

gets in my skin,

I feel its sensation

penetrating me,

like a cool feeling of mint

that crawls on it,

it is the alien silence,

part of the darkness that surrounds me.

(c) Pekky Marquez, 2007

The Half Dead Infant Angel

In the middle of a white cloud
with blue-green bells singing an austere song
there is an attic empty and cold as death
and there, a little infant angel lies half dead,
with his eyes half closed, the infant angel lies there
and his eyes project the disturbing light of death.

The infant angel choose to be half dead,
confined in a prisson
of others who needed him.

The half dead infant angel sees the roof
hoping that it opens, and he can see the sky so blue,
little he ignores that there is only a white cloud,
and this is why the attic is half dark.

The half-dead infant angel in the middle of his death
hears the austere bells singing the beauties of loneliness,
as he sees in front of him the uncertainty of an unseen future.

His pain is so obvious in his face,
that others who have passed there have seen him,
and they have ran away scared,
because the half dead infant angel,
with his eyes half closed and empty,
his bleeding mouth,
his unmovable body,
and the surrounding half darkness
that dances with the darkly beautiful melodies
that the bells keep singing,
reminds all who see him of their own death.

(c) Pekky Marquez, 2005

The Missing Hell

The Sun is coming up
The sky is blue and clear
The Birds are singing,
but there is melancholy.

Where has happiness gone? all that I see
is nostalgic faces that refuse to wash away their melancholy.

I see the vegetation greener that green,
but the faces of those surrounding me seem not to care,
their minds are into something else;
as if they would want the hell they just missed.

(C) Pekky Marquez, 2001

Destructive Passion

Fire,
Flames,
lava
the lava destroys the valley.

The lava of the passion
causes reaction
you my love,
you are devastating.

You are poisonous
But I don't know
why I love you so much.

You are no more than lava
that came to destroys my valley,
condemnation from the hell.

I have to please you,
I have no identity,
but you want
to take
mine away.

(c) Pekky Marquez 2001

Crisis

I look at a mirror
And I see
An Image
that is not me.

The beauty in the gore
just depresses me,
and I am on my knees
crying black tears.

I pick up a dry rose
that lies on the muddy floor
while I am feeling
claustrophobic.

The Beauty in the dark
just suffocates me,
and I can't breath.

I just wonder
If I am really me.
I look at that person
in a faded photograph
who looks like me.
And that person
painfully
points her hurting finger
at me.

Am I really me?
Or I am just wearing a mask
that suffocates me.
Is that mask out of control?
Have I given birth to a monster?
If so, is this monster
choking me,
or is it that
I simply don't understand myself?

The beauty in the death
just confuses me,
and I look to a big dark abyss
unsure of where
will it take me.

The red darkness
is a mixture
of darkness
with blood,
with love,
with souls that just escaped.

My heart contracts,
my heart aches,
while I feel so absent
of myself.

Am I rally absent of myself,
or needing to be?
Am I scared of myself,
or eager for a confrontation with myself?
Am I wanting Death?
Or I am feeling dead right now?

(c) Pekky Marquez 2001

Doubt

Uncertain,
Uncertain inside of this freezing hell,
I have a feeling I have not the right to feel.

No shine of stars,
no music,
no magic,
not a single thread I can follow.

I walk this way with confusion,
I wander, and I wonder,
I feel no right to have faith
no right to wish
Oh! Oh!, smiles are a sin.

It is a sin being happy
while others surrounding you suffer.
That's a sin,
a punishable sin,
because being happy is selfish,
foolish,
childish.

Life seems to be all about suffering.
We come here to suffer
in this valley of tears
for no good reason.

I am uncertain,
because I am not sure if I am sinning
and I am being punished.
I am not sure of whether I should be morose,
or calm.

Doubt is the worse of the tortures,
because it makes me choke in it,
like a prisoner in a gas chamber.

(c) Pekky Marquez 2001

Weird Silence

That day, I noticed that a mortal silence surrounded the environment. I don't know if the silence had always existed, and I just hadn't been aware of that until that moment; or only in that instant the silence suddenly appeared. Since then, my visits to the outer environment never where the same, whatsoever.

Suddenly, I started to see the environment that surrounded me with other eyes. Everything seemed so bizarre and mysterious. I felt as if I was under the effects of a drug.

Streets looked so empty, silent and lifeless, as if the whole city would just collapsed. That lead me to wonder if a more chaotic environment was better than this one, certainly peaceful, but mortally desolated.

I started evoking those calm yet somber melodies which I related this environment with. The sky was blue, but the loneliness of all what surrounded me made me perceive the weather as ugly and very, very dark.

I hoped this was a nightmare that would end really soon, but time seemed to turn unbearably infinite.

And then, I started to wonder if I was dead already. No, It wasn't possible, even though Death could be welcome, since that seemed the only exit to this open yet claustrophobic space.
(c) Pekky Marquez, 2001

Vain Wait

I wait for you,

wait in vain
You don't come
and I'm still here
with this vague hope.

The heat surrounding me
is still unbearable
because I am in the middle of a fire.
But I am still here,
waiting for you,
waiting in vain.

I am waiting for you
to rescue me from the hell I am in,
and I can't scream for help somewhere else.
And I wonder
Yes, I wonder
what is the sin I have to pay in this damn hell.

I have to be ecstatic in this hell
I cannot move somewhere else,
because I am enslaved by this vague hope
that makes me wait for you,

wait in vain.
(c) Pekky Marquez 2001

Nebulla

Holding your hand until you say a prayer,
I look for you among a thousand faces
Longing for you from a Distant Galaxy
I look at the Stars, but your soul is not there.

The sky is high, the cold chills my bones,
your eyes are dead mirrors in which my face reflects,
holding your absence, while I try to fire matches against it
makes my body bruise, and feel a deadly pain.

Loving you is like being the mistress of death,
And I try to take comfort in the delusions surrounding me.
Love is a flower that spills honey for some,
but for me, it is a poisonous pen with a heavy iron hand.

Perhaps I don't know how to enjoy the chains,
while I am not sure if this longing is mine,
I just know you are in a far away galaxy
and the only language you know is that of delusions.

I prefer to float in the dark,
making love to the thick velvet waters,
because that is the only peace I can have
without stopping being alive.