Carving Cyberwaves of Pleasure

Carving Cyberwaves of Pleasure (Casually)

I found you like one does a sand dollar,

While walking glancing and contemplating eternity.

I was not looking for you but you came.

Oh boy I said I can carve my name here,

Or graffiti or some message for a brother.

Or for some seeker with burning soul and cool eyes

In the whirling ocean of our hours

Maybe I can draw sand castle dreams.

So I glanced upward at stars as memory signposts,

Digging for a thousand hieroglyphically scrolled visions,

But the clouds obscured my view for a moment.

It was just a moment and it passed.

There will be another walk on these shores,

I tell myself while thoughts climb stairs of light.

Maybe I can return with a scroll in my hand,

My torch ablaze like a lighthouse in the haze.

Yes, maybe I can find my way back and maybe

You will find me by the tracks I leave so quickly.

Oh sailor and first mate in the distant waters,

I was cold and hungry and so thirsty on this spot

That I spoke aloud the thoughts I could not.

I confess my gnarled fingers did almost my sandy blanket

Release as I stood for what seemed forever to recite

Carving Cyberwaves of Pleasure in the foggy night.

Vicente Reyes

October 3, 1997

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Original English & Spanish translation by Vicente Reyes, all others by SYSTRAN

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