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Ballad~ By Cristina DeSouza

2/22/2016

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If I fall in love, when I fall in 
love, I want to lose my breath
bridge my dreams, breach the
earth and the invisible chains
around my neck. Suffocate in
miles of air.

It will be like a
blood clot in my open chest,
throbbing like an inflamed
wound, burning like oozing flesh.

It will be about
how my heart will speed 
race inside my breast.

Then you whom I 
don’t know yet, will be of
the color of my iris,
shining in the early morning.

I will be dizzy
in the now but anchored
to the ground, so that I can
reach you and kiss you,
lingering till dawn.

And the nights will bring me
your body stretched on my bed
white like moonlight, your
eyes silvery like skyless stars.

I will awake and see
your lips sweet and red. I will
touch your womb and caress your 
neck. I will hold you tight 
but gently against my breasts.

Because when I fall in love, I
will be finally able to rest amidst
the flames and high water of the
world. I will chant the days and
feed myself with the comets 
crossing the twilight. And then I
will glow one more time, one more
night, if I fall in love.


Author Bio:
Cristina DeSouza is a physician and poet, living in Phoenix, Arizona since 1990's. She is currently attending Vermont College of Fine Arts in Poetry and enjoying every minute of it. She has poems published in Portuguese, both in Brazil and in Portugal an has a book of poems released in Brazil in 2011, titled "Uns Poucos Versos." She is an internist and hematologist who needs both aspects in her life: science and art. She will complete her Low residency in writing/poetry in July 2016.
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