Half Life and the Sands of Mars

Half Life, 66, and the Sands of Mars

Half life of mine

Estimated genetic active existence

66 is the number

132 it shall be, or more

If environment, experiences

Incidents, accidents

Which have makes me

What I am right now

Do not cut it shorter 

From all the years

Of living that are to be.

Much I have, so far,

Lived and seen

From flowers and tears of love

To blood and tears of war

My time has enjoyed 

The greatest human adventures of all

More than Da Gama, Cabral, Vespucci and Zheng He

Could ever foreseen

As they faced the great oceans of Earth.

We have become 

Space navigators

Achieving the greatness 

Of permanent existence in the skies

I want also to travel that far and beyond

Bathing in different shores

Under new Suns

And new views of our Sun.

When my time, and it will one day,

Passes into a permanent night,

Bury me in the sands of Mars

For visitors from afar

To wonder about

Who we were

What we have done

And where we are.

©Regis Cabral, Piteå, 16 January 2020

Eyes of Fire - Poem for Agnes Hustler

Eyes of Fire

A Poem for Agnes Hustler and her music

Voices and sounds

Showing a path

Through the shadows of fading lights

With fire swords

Coming from her skies

A beautiful angel

Always pounding at doors

Still closed

Soon she will break them apart

She fights

Falling sometimes

Always standing up

Not hiding tears

Nor screams in the night

Beware of her angry feelings

Fire swords

From her piercing eyes

Transforming

Yours, our lives

Our pains

The tears inside

She stands up, always,

And fights

For the love she has

For our hearts.

©️ Regis Cabral, Piteå, 2 August 2019

Steps - A Poem for Parents

Steps - A poem for parents

Steps in the dark
Sounding light
Searching for
A moment of smiles
To last the night

Steps in the dark
Approaching quietly
Just to find
A loving embrace
Making safe the night

Steps in the dark
Coming dearly
Towards my heart
She is really
The meaning of life
©️ Regis Cabral, Piteå, 27 September 2018

The Existing Lines

The Existing Lines
Here I am
Waiting beyond
Existing lines
Where you can not see me
Only those
With a good heart can find

Here I am
Waiting beyond
Existing lines
Ready to return
And so I will
If ever evil strikes

Here I am
Knowing and learning from beyond
These are my lines
War dogs shall not pass
If they arrive
I will send them back

Here I am
From where I can see
The bright, good, future
Possible
For you, for me
For all of we
©️Regis Cabral, 20 August 2018

Dream Forest, Forest of Dreams

Dream Forest, Forest of Dreams
A poem for Kreativa Jenny Järvholm

A week of Moon Sun eclipses
Pleiades rain
Lady bugs
In a day, in a night
Of endless hours
From end to start
Shine so much more
In the eyes
In the smiles
Of this Child of mine

Every little piece
Every little line
Blue, red, rainbow colors
Beyond the forest lights
Constructions to be made
Never found before
Once they arise
They inspire
Bringing sunshine and stars
To the eyes
To the smiles
Of this Child of mine
©️Regis Cabral 14 August 2018

Planet of Mine

Planet of Mine
Planet
Planet of mine
Heat waves
Rain waves
Sand waves
Racist waves
Poison waves
Smelting life
Disappearing, changing
Into ways
Forms and shapes
We do not fit in
Is it time
Time and time
For a new Noah’s ark?
All of these
And so much wrong more
Are the effects
Of arrogant steps
Of thoughts out of phase
With the waves of space time
Planet
Planet of mine
Will you recover?
But watch out
Evil ones
For the planet of mine
Will no longer be
Home
For destructive sinful minds
©️ Regis Cabral 5 August 2018

Silver Road - Silvervägen

Silver Road
Inspired by Stina Jackson’s Silvervägen
Road rides
From here to Norway
From the start to the end of ways
And back
Searching for a heart
Gone with a child’s life
Sorrows for what can not be undone
New persons, old friends
The disappeared reappear
In words, shapes and sounds
Where are they
But somewhere in roads
In lines, clues and threads
Outsiders looking into
The high inside ways
Not finding the way out
Of their lonely lost self
Clues in themselves
As the road travelers
Search for lost ones
Just to find
That loneliness is also a road
Safer travelled alone
Waiting for the disappeared to return
In the minds
In the silver road
As they struggle to solve
What otherwise is
The mystery of their lives
©️Regis Cabral, 20 July 2018

Reflections of Life

Reflections of Life

Mirrors
Mirrors
Mirrors of life
Reflecting surfaces
All the mirrors
Side by side
Reflecting
Reflections
Lives going into life
Reflections never gone by
Staying in eternal whiles
Our lives, new life
Of the days turned into days and nights
As the mirrors reflect
The reflections of our future
Of you and I

©️ Regis Cabral, 07 July 2018, Luleå, Sweden

Light Ray

Light Ray

Listening to the signs of change

While the thunderstorm rages

I see a light ray

Showing the road

Whispering the way

In the faces I see

Despair changes into hope

As the drops of rain

Wash away

The fears and the tears

The waves and the tides turn

The forces of darkness away run

The light ray

Shows the road

Shows the way

Everywhere there is much to gain

Tears transform

Into a new hope

A new day

Announcing the victory

Of the light ray.

© Regis Cabral,  28 June 2018

Half Moon

Half Moon
A Moon
Sings to the Stars
”Are you bright  enough
To give me another Sun?
Humanity may take a wrong turn
And no Sun light
As we know
May be strong enough
To undo
The wrongdoings
In the little time
Left behind
By the Ethernal Time
As She consider
How to say good bye”

A Moon
Sings to the Stars
”Are you bright enough
To give humaniity a sign
So that
No turns will be taken,
Taking human beigns
In the roads of destruction
Already travelled
Roads of waste land and darkness”

A Moon
Sings to the Stars
”So let your light
Shine like candels
In Angels eyes”

So the Moon spoke
Hoping for light and life

© Regis Cabral,  26 December 2017

Prayers and Thoughts

Prayers and Thoughts
Pray for the Churches
For the people and the dancers
Who sing here and beyond
Pray for action
To change the future
Near and far
Words only
Take nowhere
Just to fears and tears
Do something
Before the Sun fails and falls
Do something
Before the Nation sinks
Into dark, uncertain, seas
So, and now
Care and act
Otherwise history
If it is to remember you at all
Will see you
As the failed caretaker
Who escapes to the East
As the Country
Weeps and bleeds
Waiting for others
To take action
Praised they will be
For all the ages to come
© Regis Cabral,  11 November 2017

Manchester

Manchester

Your darkness and hate
Try to come upon us
To steal the light
To take away
Our dreams
Our beautiful stars

We respond
Stand our ground
Transform tears of pain
Into smiles of hope
Into the resolve of life

Against your acts of bloody sin
We shall play our guitars
Against your backward steps
We shall dance and sing
We will love deep and wide

The future will remember
The songs of our lives
Our love for men- and womenkind
Bringing back the light
As we play our flutes, our strings
And we shall dance and sing
Dance and sing
© Regis Cabral,  29 May 2017

A Mosul Freedom Sniper prays

A Mosul Freedom Sniper prays

Holly Mary
Full of grace
Who is everywhere
In the seas and in space

Guide my aim
I am here to save children
Used as shields
By man of evil

Holly Mary
You are in the souls
Of people of good heart
Make my hand steady
Do not let me miss

I want to set these children free
These children of yours
That young girl
Not older than mine

I want to see as she grows
Later in life
With a partner of her choice
Running down these hills
With hair flying wild
Through the wind
Whispered by Angels
In a life of her own

Holly Mary
Full of grace
Guide my aim
I shall not fail Thee
I shall not fail them

© Regis Cabral,  15 November 2016

Steps to Mar Toma

Steps to Mar Toma

Oh Saint Thomas
Inspiration to all faiths
Who took the long steps
To peacefully bring
Your beliefs
To all with pure heart
Agreeing or disagreeing
Your words are eternally true
From India to Americas
An all shinning Sun
An all shinning Son
Inspire me
As I fight to find your Church
Amid the ruins and martyrs
Of all faiths
Evil could not silence you
It never did
It will not silence me
As I take the steps to free
The Church of St. Thomas
An inspiration for all
All people of all faiths
All people with good will
Steps to Mar Toma
Take me
Where my heart will
© Regis Cabral,  31 October 2016

Child from Aleppo

Child from Aleppo

You ask me
Why we fight
You ask me
Why I risk
And this could be
The last day of my life
It is for you
For all the children
Who have the right
To a free life
It is for all the shrines
Of all religions
Of all humankind
It is to stop the monsters
The evil who has taken place
Who has destroyed, killed and defaced
The temples full of grace
We fight for you
So that you will have a choice
To be
And to be the future
You want to be
© Regis Cabral,  29 October 2016

Aleppo's Tears

Aleppo's Tears

City of wisdom
Now broken into tears
As the white marble
Of this most ancient city of all
Changes its colors
Into red
Red blood
Of innocents
Who have not done any harm
Have only in their hearts
A tradition of so many years
Of so many tears
Of so many broken hearts
Give them peace
Give the city new lights
Let tears be not wasted
Let them give fruit
To a new beginning
For this once beautiful city
Let the suffering stop
Give Aleppo a new life
© Regis Cabral,  20 October 2016

Mosul

Mosul

Freedom fighter
Who comes my way
I admire your courage
Your suffering
To give me back
The right to speak
The right to live
The right to be
Come and free me
Bring water for my mother
My little brother and my father
Please keep in mind
Defeating the evil enemy
Is but a first step
For to keep us alive
We need to rebuild
To replace the stones
In the destroyed schools
Welcoming teachers
And flowers
To the garden of life
© Regis Cabral,  19 October 2016

For a Syrian Woman and her Child

For a Syrian Woman and her Child

A woman with her child

Takes to the streets

Against the tyrant

With devil in his eyes

A despot hidden behind

False promises and lies

While the blood flows

Out of the good peoples' hearts

To the protest march

The voice of liberty is high

In the sacrifice

Of this woman and her child

As bleeding friends find strength

As she struggles against the dark

For her child she rises

Inspired by the immortal messages

Seen by poets

In the eternal and true light

That will sweep away

The dictatorship of night

And she fights

With her smile

For her child

Still alive in her arms

To stop the pain in Syria

And the tears in the sky

For Freedom

For Life

© Regis Cabral, 21 June 2012,  8 October 2016

Beyond the Silence

Beyond the Silence

Words can say
Silent meanings
Between the lines
Unwritten signs
Of events
Unspoken
Unblind
Still alive
Somewhere
Somehow
Hidden
But remembered
Where the minds
Find, encounter
The unsaid said
To be revealed
In the judgement day
To come, to arrive
For all
Even for those
Who try to hide
In the silence
Between the lines
© Regis Cabral,  5 October 2016

Alone and Unhappy - Not Me

Alone and Unhappy - Not Me

They are so alone
And think they have done much
Not having more than a bank account
A window to look at
Something to talk about
No one to listen
No one to listen to
Everything by themselves
Nothing to someone else
Abandoning the meaning of life
Coming to an end
Nobody cares about
Have they existed?
Have they not?
Behaving like selfish genes
Humanity lost
Not me
Not ever me
As I see the meanings of
The understanding of
A life given
A life to give
This is what
The life of love is all about
© Regis Cabral,  4 October 2016