POEMS
"Dad, I don't know | If fate will accede me.
Outlaw, | Your child is a pair | Of traps
Made to catch the future."
By Mauro C. Souza © 1992
Photo by Haeyeon Chang
"That's it.
I write because there is some lie that I want to tell.
I write because it is dawn, and soon it'll be evening.
The black stars in the white night are inks on the paper."
By Mauro C. Souza © 2021
"Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here."
By Max Ehrmann © 1927
"Shadows don't fade | From a past that bleeds in my ears | Spreading on the floor of my destiny, |Torn by loneliness, |Immersed in the silence of the absurd."
Photo by Haeyeon Chang
"Life goes away | The past remains | Obfuscated | On the corners | Of memories | No glories"
By Mauro C. Souza © 2010
Photo by Haeyeon Chang
"Outside, the wind howls, | a lonely and desperate cry, | the clouds roll in"
By Mauro C. Souza © 2010
Photo by Haeyeon Chang
"I am a woman, but also a girl. | More woman than girl by obligation or trauma, | By soul drama, | The more I can, the more I am a girl than a woman. | I'm tenacious and vulnerable, | Sure of myself, but malleable."
By Mauro C. Souza © 2017
"That corner where life bends, | Lived, suffered on the corner. | If a thought were fate, | Destiny would be a lament."
By Mauro C. Souza © 2017
No, I ain’t gonna ask for bread, | No, I ain’t gonna measure your hand, | No, I ain’t gonna give you some, | No, I ain’t gonna bow to the ground,
By Mauro C. Souza © 2012
