LUISA CÁMERE QUIROZ

 

 

My Late Love

 

My heart bleeds like a pomegranate in crimson,

rubies scatter in a masquerade of sorrow.

 

The world doesn't notice, no one sees the tearing

that runs through the channel of my hollow veins.

 

Because love touched my soul when it was too late;

it knows nothing of age, of time, or of cold.

 

My soul froze when I learned

that his kisses and his glances would never be mine.

 

It's better that the feeling turns to ice,

that it melts and drips like tears of pearls;

they will no longer be of blood, but a crystalline cry.

 

Crying, because a burning flame still remains

in that gaze and in the touch of his hands.

 

Crying, because love was late

and the heart fades like a withered rose.

Lifeless, and the feeling becomes agonizing,

withered by time that does not forgive.

 

I will survive, without the touch of her hands, without her gaze;

 

thus, I keep, like a hidden treasure, my late-blooming love.

 

Eternity

 

There are loves that dwell in distance,

living in the stillness of the sacred,

they need neither kisses nor fragrance

to remain forever bound.

 

They are flames that in the forge of the spirit

ignite the engine of the universe,

a fire that does not burn, in situ

that is sealed in the ink of each verse.

 

As Laura was light in Canzionero,

a pure archetype in her gaze,

Petrarch at Mass became a prisoner,

of his divine and immaculate muse.

 

Or Dante, Beatrice in The Divine Comedy,

was a symbol of peace and virtue,

found in the seven heavens a remedy

towards an eternal and mystical fullness.

 

Let me be your reliquary today,

an immense and immeasurable feeling,

let our love be the most

confessional,

one soul to another, forever united.

 

LUISA CÁMERE QUIROZ

 

LUISA CÁMERE QUIROZ/ MILETICH (Peruvian- American) Resides in the United States. Writer, poet, literary critic, renowned cultural promoter, and advocate for women's rights and the environment. She has continued her studies in education, literature, and human rights and actively promotes holistic cultural exchange on a global scale, connecting diverse communities through the universal language of art and fostering cross-border dialogue. She is the author of the memoirs Mujer de Roble (2009), Mutilada de mil maneras (2021), and Load with Love (2023), as well as Gacela en Filigrana de Plata (2025). She is recognized for her participation in numerous literary events at the invitation of cultural promoter Elisa Mascia (Italy), as well as in interviews and competitions around the world. It appears in world-renowned magazines such as Alessandria Today, nonsoloarteepoesia Magiche Emozioni dell'Anima, OPA, Prodigy, Azahar, Humanity Magazine, Convergencia and many others.