Mi Nuevo Amanecer Poem by Maria Segura

</>Ayer.. Caminaba por la calle, pues no sabia que hacer.
Tantos años, tantas ilusiones, tantas esperanzas.
Nada! Nada ya! Toque mi mejilla pues pense que llovia,
Mas no, no era lluvia, era solo una lagrima furtiva!

Llegue a una esquina, esa esquina donde te conocí
En esa esquina donde soñe,
en el lugar donde tus besos abrieron mis labios,
Esos labios sedientos de amor, esos labios que esperarban ansiosos
De un amor puro y desinteresado.
Nada! Nada ya! Toque mi mejilla pues pense que llovia,
Mas no, no era lluvia, era solo una lagrima furtiva!

Me sostuve del poste, mas mi brazo lo envolvio,
Como si quisiera sostenerlo, como si quisiera que estuvieras ahi,
Recuerdas la primera vez que pasamos por esa esquina, llenos de ilusion?
Pero ….nada! Nada ya! Toque mi mejilla pues pense que llovia,
Mas no, no era lluvia, era solo una lagrima furtiva!

Ya no quise saber mas, baje la banqueta y comenze a caminar,
Atras quedo aquella esquina, aquel poste,
Las parejas pasaban, y al tomarse de la mano …sonreian!
Como hace tiempo otra pareja lo hacia.

Ya ….. Ya! Toque mi mejilla al sentir que lloraba,
ya no era solo una lagrima furtiva, esta vez tambien llovia!
Entonces me dije …llora…llora al fin que nadie me veria
Mis lagrimas y la lluvia lavarian toda tristeza que mi alma traia.

Ahora con la cabeza en alto, con una certeza que no conocia,
Una nueva vida yo iniciaria!


Lupita Martinez

My new dawn
Yesterday I walked down the street
I did not know what to do
so many years, so many dreams, so much hope
And nothing! None of that anymore,
I touched my cheek, I thought I felt a raindrop,
but it was a lonely teardrop.

I came to this corner,
That corner where I met you,
That corner where I had so many dreams,
The place where your kiss opened my lips,
Those lips that hungered for love,
Those lips that craved pure and unselfish love,

I held on to the light pole, my arm went around it,
embracing it, Holding on to it, as wanting you to be there,
Do you remember that first time we stood at that corner?
In our minds nothing but dreams…. But
Nothing! None of that anymore
I touched my cheek, I thought I felt a raindrop,
But it was a lonely teardrop.

I wanted to think no more,
I stepped down from the sidewalk,
Behind me stood that corner, that light pole,
And I saw some couples, holding hands,
Smiling to one another,
The same way a couple did long ago,
Stop! Stop! I touched my cheek, I felt I was crying,
It was not a lonely teardropp anymore,
This time it was also raining, raining hard,
And I said to myself,
Cry, cry, no one will notice,
My tears and the rain would take away,
All the sadness my soul had.
And, now with my head up high,
With a certainty, not known by me before,
I would start a new life!