“It’s not pointless to love, finally. Just like training snakes, it calls for a refined technique and losing our shame of performing in front of the world in loincloths. And nerves of steel.” LovePoetryStrengthPoemShameNerves Of Steel Author:Javier Velaza
“I need from your love an anesthetic; come with your morphine kisses to sedate me, come encircle my waist with your arms, making a life preserver, to keep the lethal weight of sadness from drowning me” LovePoetrySadnessPoemComfortRescueSedatives Author:Javier Velaza
“like that only love saves us at last from the grip of the worst danger we know of: to be only–and nothing else—ourselves.” LoveSelfPoetryPoemBeing Saved Author:Javier Velaza
“And if nothing will free us from death at least love will save us from life.” LoveLifeDeathPoetryPoemBeing Saved Author:Javier Velaza