MARIBELLA GENOVA

MARIBELLA GENOVA

DESTINY

She swayed passionately,

her feet light, restless,

as the harmonies of

new life caressed every cell

of her being.

The painful mountains of her past

had transcended into colossal

pyramids of divine ecstasy.

Looking back into a river of

radiant hues,

she had become an eternal masterpiece.

Her mind had become her friend.

Her soul had come alive.

I READ

I read and I learn,

because my curiosity comes with deliberate questions a man

can never answer.

Because my mind is attracted to the works of those

who had the courage to put onto paper the very words

that ripped their souls to shreds.

I read and I learn,

Because walking on this earth as an educated woman,

reminds me that my personal power is not something I can let anyone undermine,

while my humility recognizes the teachings of masters much wiser than me.

I read and I learn…

for me.

for my gender.

for humanity.

I CAN LEAVE

Yes, I can leave, but to what avail?

Where I go, you won't be.

My heart screams the sound of despair

when your memory

takes seat in the torment of my loneliness.

To bear, even one day

the absence of your touch,

shatters my soul to fragments

of numerous deaths,

where breath can no longer reside.

Leaving you is a path I am unwilling to take.

Nest your weariness on my

blanket of truth,

lined with promises of new life.

Mi amor,

Let me love you.

MARIBELLA GENOVA