THE FLAME

Whenever I have a free second,

I use it to be with you

One free second with you makes me sigh for more

One free minute with you is a heavenly delight

One free hour with you is Eternity 

(the good kind of Eternity)

Often, you stop time: an instant becomes eternal

Time with you is written with capital letters

I will seek you for the rest of my Time

My love is yours to keep: an eternal flame

Sándalo Naranja

THE THOUSAND HOURS

There are one thousand hours in a day without you, yet just one minute of your eyes on me, just one minute of your light, shining on me, would be enough to undo the thousand hours, to revert all the thousand small deaths, only that light, I say, would be enough to freeze that deadly time, that muted distance, perhaps to unlock the eternal now and here, so I will sit here, expecting at any moment that light flooding through my window, washing down all my shadows, all my little deaths.

Sándalo Naranja