Nightmare Revisited


Nightmare Revisited


O delírio é o mesmo de sempre, prometo

As cores, as luzes, os sons. Esta música

A ilusão é pintada uma e outra vez

Com a palete negra e branca do desespero

Os flashes vêm e vão. Não sei o que vi

A história é sempre a mesma, prometo

Corro, corro, sentada entre as almofadas

Quero, quero, mas as cortinas não abrem

A escuridão é densa como o arco-íris

Mas não há tesouro se encontrarmos o fim

A esperança já não é a mesma, lamento

Continuo a visitar este lugar insensato

Como derrotado no palco do seu fracasso

Em busca de não sei que palavras de consolo

O não é certo e a recusa não é moderada

Sei que não vou continuar para sempre

O vidro do espelho é cada vez mais baço

A fotografia de mim também não é igual

O olhar demora-se na tentativa de ficar

De não cair de novo na letargia do sono

É como uma pequena morte passageira

O medo sim morou sempre aqui, declaro

Mas mais claro é a luz do dia a perder

Cada madrugada comida pela ignorância

Não ver nunca o sol nascer para o mundo

Afundada na sombra inconsciente de mim

Uma noite prolongada no tempo da vida

Ganhando ao dia as horas que ele roubou

Mas frágil, perco sempre a batalha

Cega nas possibilidades do amanhã

O desejo de despertar é eterno, confesso

Tal como inútil a necessidade de adormecer

Perder as estrelas para uma real escuridão

Ceder a paz do silêncio para o vazio deste

Esquecer o que ficou e o que me espera

Para encontrar um sonho que é mentira

E a loucura é bem maior sonhando, garanto

Inchada dos receios e memórias distorcidas

Segreda-me que sonhar não se faz a dormir

Porque este sono é subtil pesadelo

Todas as noites revisitado


Raquel Martinez Neves

28-Jul-10

I'm Okay



I’m Okay


I hung up the phone

There’re no tears in my eyes

I said no, I said yes

I left whatever we have

It wasn’t an end

‘Cause we haven’t a start


And I don’t care what you say

It doesn’t matter today

I’m okay

I’m okay

I felt the kiss that you gave

I breathe the breath that you take

I’m okay

I’m okay

I saw the truth in your words

They were flowers, not swords

I’m okay

I’m okay


I hang up the hope

There’s no resentment here

We’ve talk and we see

It wasn’t meant to be

I can’t avoid the sadness

But you’ll always got me


And I don’t care what you say

It doesn’t matter today

I’m okay

I’m okay

I felt the kiss that you gave

I breathe the breath that you take

I’m okay

I’m okay

I saw the truth in your words

They were flowers, not swords

I’m okay

I’m okay


No, babe, I can’t cry

No, love is a lie

We give and we take

We forgive and we break


And I don’t care what you say

It doesn’t matter today

I’m okay

I’m okay

I felt the kiss that you gave

I breathe the breath that you take

I’m okay

I’m okay

I saw the truth in your words

They were flowers, not swords

I’m okay

I’m okay


Raquel Martinez Neves

17-Jul-10

Suspended


Suspended



I thought something

Something wrong, he said

I did something

Something I cannot remember

Something bad, he yelled

I said I’m sorry

I even cried because of it

But he didn’t forgive me


I don’t know where am I

I have no voice to call him

I’m just thoughts and darkness

And an eternal pain

Right around my neck

I can’t see anything

I can’t feel anything

Dad, I’m so sorry


He slapped me in the face

That didn’t hurt

Saw the anger in his eyes did

I don’t understand why

I try to behave nicely

I don’t disrespect him

I barely talk to him

He wouldn’t listen anyway


I am a good girl

I follow all his orders

But I thought that him…

Right, I cannot think

I have to be quiet all the time

Without move, without talk

And without cry

Or I’ll end up like her


He could put me back in the closet

It is not that bad, you know

I can’t see him hurt mummy there

I don’t ear anything either

And I believe the stopped

I believe the let her go

So it probably worth it

I was not punished in vain


I will be free soon

Then I’ll get back to her

And it won’t hurt anymore

I’ll be shore he will be there too

For he to see my wounds

And accept my apologize

Maybe I can hope his regret

After all, I think he killed me


Raquel Martinez Neves

11-Jul-10

Sentinela


Sentinela


Quebra

Risco de lápis falhado

Maquilhagem borrada

Sapatos na mão

Copos de plástico no chão


Somos alguém entre ninguém,

E para ninguém somos alguém


Colisão

As luzes frias e amarelas

Os pneus a derrapar na estrada

Buzinas fracas e mortas

Estrondo no silêncio da noite


Escrevemos a nossa histórias na areia,

Sabendo que há-de vir o mar para a apagar


Rescaldo

O Sol que se levanta

Esperança morna e fugidia

Espera sonhadora mas cansada

Lágrimas que secam na alvorada


Queremos que acreditem em nós

Mas vacilamos perante a força da nossa voz


Construímos caminhos

Tropeçamos nas pedras

Agarremos nos braços

Sigamos de olhar em frente

Sentinela


Raquel Martinez Neves

Maio/Julho 2010

Alone In The World


Alone In The World


I woke up at night

Hopeless here without you

The bed is painfully cold

Not warm like it used to be

Dreaming the dream of you

I found myself alone

Catching tears from photographs

Collecting memories we’ll never have


Nothing left to break

I’m falling down inside

Nothing more to take

Live together

Die apart


Now I’m alone in this sad sad world

A world that doesn’t have you

In where I breathe without you

In where I live without you

Alone in the world

‘Cause there’s no you and me

No us

Just me


Walking in those streets

Where I first saw you

My hand looks empty

And my heart feels tight

No wonder I can’t think

You were the though in my mind

The light in day and night

And now I’m just blind


Nothing left to break

I’m falling down inside

Nothing more to take

Live together

Die apart


Now I’m alone in this sad sad world

A world that doesn’t have you

In where I breathe without you

In where I live without you

Alone in the world

‘Cause there’s no you and me

No us

Just me


The lights came down

All these faces spin around

But only you have born to be

A safe place for me

In absence

I lose sense

I need to feel you again

Touch my soul with your lips

Close the wound while it bleeds


What’s the point of live together

If we have to die apart?


Now I’m alone in this sad sad world

A world that doesn’t have you

In where I breathe without you

In where I live without you

Alone in the world

‘Cause there’s no you and me

(This is not meant to be)


Alone in a world that doesn’t have you

In where I breathe without you

In where I live without you

Alone in the world

‘Cause there’s no us

Just me

Alone in the world

Just me

Alone



Raquel Martinez Neves

1-Jul-10