lunes, julio 19, 2010
La Puta de Babilonia
Fernando Vallejo
La Puta de Babilonia
jueves, julio 15, 2010
Peace my heart
Peace, my heart, let the time for the parting be sweet.
Let it not be a death but completeness.
Let love melt into memory and pain into songs.
Let the flight through the sky end in the folding of the wings over the nest.
Let the last touch of your hands be gentle like the flower of the night.
Stand still, O Beautiful End, for a moment, and say your last words in silence.
I bow to you and hold up my lamp to light you on your way.
Rabindranath Tagore
sábado, julio 10, 2010
El nazareno y el amor
Por más que busco, no la encuentro. Leí todos los libros que hablan de su vida (los cuatro canónicos) y de sus palabra. Y sigo sin encontrar siquiera alguna preferencia, alguna etiqueta, una sola aclaración al respecto. No la hay; pero la Iglesia y casi todas las religiones que se dicen "cristianas", por seguir las enseñanzas de Cristo, prohiben el amor entre personas del mismo sexo.
Entonces, debe ser como yo pensaba. Que lo importante es la calidad del amor. Que lo importante es cuánto damos, y cómo lo damos. Que acaso dios, si existe y es amor, nos juzgará por cuánto hemos amado, y no a quién.
Entre lo que leí del galileo encontré varios pasajes interesantes. Según cuentan, entre sus milagros figuran varios memorables, por ejemplo aquél en el que ama a la prostituta María de Magdalah, su enfrentamiento con a la autoridad religiosa del momento y el perdón a dos ladrones.
A juzgar por la historia de sus seguidores, éstos no han hecho mucho caso de sus enseñanzas. Éstas podrían condensarse escrupulosamente en el siguiente pasaje que, para mí, es el más querido:
"Un mandamiento nuevo les dejo: ámense los unos a los otros como yo los amé; ámense mutuamente. En esto conocerán todos que son mis discípulos, si tienen caridad unos para con otros".
domingo, julio 04, 2010
A Wound in my Heart
You've been just an early entry
In my diary
Another page I had to fill
Inside a book of a thousand
I turn the page but my heart it aches
Living my life without you
It seems like something is missing
Something is missing without you
I close my eyes and remember why
So much is missing without you
But when I start to write again
There's a gap in my life
That's too large to fill
A wound in my heart
That no doctor can heal
There's a ghost in my mind
Who is haunting all night
There is trust deep inside
Brings you back to my side
Myself deceiving
You've been another colour
To the picture I'm painting
From the memory I have of you
But all the colours turn into blue
What you see is a part of me
Living my life without you
It seems like something is missing
Something is missing without you
But when I start to write again
It seems like something is missing
Something is missing without you
I close my eyes but I must be blind
So much is missing without you
Life goes on
I will be strong
Living my life without you
But once in a while I realise
That so much is missing
Without you
There's a gap in my life
That's too large to fill
A wound in my heart
That no doctor can heal
There's a ghost in my mind
Who is haunting all night
There is trust deep inside
Brings you back to my side
There's a gap in my life
That's too large to fill
A wound in my heart
That no doctor can heal
There's a ghost in my mind
Who is haunting all night
There is trust deep inside
Myself deceiving
Myself deceiving
But when I start to write again
There's a gap in my life
That's too large to fill
A wound in my heart
That no doctor can heal
There's a ghost in my mind
Who is haunting all night
There is trust deep inside
Myself deceiving
There's a gap in my life
That's too large to fill
A wound in my heart
That no doctor can heal
There's a ghost in my mind
Who is haunting all night
There is trust deep inside
Myself deceiving
Myself deceiving
Propaganda
A place between life and death
Sometimes your life feels like it's caving in on you.
Sometimes people really do feel like they don't want
to exist, like they want to just curl up in a ball, and
go into that place between life and death. Saying
"I don't want to exist" isn't saying "I want to die".
It's saying "I wish that, for the time being, I could go
somewhere and not have to feel". I don't think there's
anything wrong with that. And if you don't know how
it feels to feel this way, then you have no place to judge
anyone who does.
sábado, julio 03, 2010
Temer la muerte
Sócrates.