A New Time Was Born Poem by Marieta Maglas

I approached you, and the flash sound
of your voice embraced me.
‘Twas somewhere, near the divine idea.
I had not met you before, but when we
united our voices to be together, in this way,
I felt the eternity floating in the air,
that kind of white eternity,
in which everyone would want to stay.
So many people crowded in between us
that we seemed to be two points on a world map.
So long as the distance between us
that we seemed to leave the idea of being together
to go to different Poles.
It was the time when the sun was declining
beneath the blue horizon in a ring of fire,
when the moon rose, and when the coming night
embraced the leaving day.
It was our twilight.
It was the time when the stars began
to appear on a new dark sky.
I started to be afraid of losing you.
I took the elapsed time,
and I hung it on the 'Lyre' constellation.
The existent seconds flowed into that space
with a terrible rapidity.
A new time was born,
in which we became existent.
I felt you wished to touch me.
I felt the tenderness of your voice.
Our feelings flowed into
the 'Bird of Paradise' constellation.
Suddenly, a ring of stars began to fall.
I did not know if it was a real rain of stars
or a fireworks show, and I didn't know
whether we could embrace each other,
but I felt that I was irreversibly transformed
into another new woman.

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