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My name is d.s.l. and this is my poetry collection called Jules 23

Written by one for only one

How do I tell you I love you? When memories have slowly faded

Do I see your eyes, and not recognize? 

Or do I sense your smile, and not give it reply? 

 

I cannot now come close to you

Or place my heart next to your chest

But can I love if I can’t say? 

“I love you more than words I pray” 

 

Here in my palm, I feel your touch

Here in my soul, your kiss draws close

 

I will travel through times and space

No matter if you hide away

 

I will find us like I did once

And tell you more than I did once

 

I love you happy and love you blue

Like what I say tonight to you

 

I love you forever and more after

For that was life if dreams came true. 

My dear July,

 

Perhaps these words have been long due 

Or perhaps these lives for us are too

 

Today, I am happy 

Happy for you,

And happy for me

 

No longer should we,

be ghosts

For now we are alive

With hope

With laughter 

 

There is someone to dine with us

There is someone to smile with us

 

It’s not you,

It’s not me, 

But it’s the person who set us free

 

In their new eyes, 

We are not blind 

In their new kisses 

We are not lost

 

This moment are now just ours

Like when we were just you and me

 

But moments are but moments

Like summer’s flowers and winter’s withers

 

My dear July,

 

We don’t get to choose how we are dealt with

But we can always choose how to deal with

 

Always choose kindness

Always choose love 

 

For to be kind is to be brave

To have suffered unkindness,

But learn of kindness

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To love is to be brave

To have suffered brokenness,

But learn of love

 

We will be far and we will be long

I will miss you and you might miss me too

 

But wipe your tears to hear my love 

Shut out your fear and read my words: 

 

For on nights like this

The wind shall brings me back to you

But if the sky are clear

Then look up to the stars and kiss me still

I shall wait under the heavens

For soon my earth shall turn from day to night

And draws your lips to mine again

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My dear July, 

Forever I love you.

I love her without her

I love her like I always did 

And I will love her like I always do

 

You can take her away from me

Steal her like a thief

Or kill her like a murderer

 

But the shadows of her 

They never leaves 

 

She is with me

Forever with me

 

Building her house and decorating her room

Making her bed and walking through her space

 

She dresses in her glory 

And bathe in her beauty 

 

She lives with me 

Never from me 

But always with me

 

In my heart she freely wanders

In my heart she freely stays

 

She had chosen me 

And I had chosen her 

 

You can tell me that she left

Or remind me that she’s gone

 

But our love will not part

Nor will I find another start 

 

In death she waits for me

As in life I wait for her

 

And I kiss her still 

And she replies 

 

As I love her still 

And she replies

 

No heaven 

No hell

No angels

No demons

 

No one

Will take our love away 

No matter where I go

You are gone,

You are everywhere

 

You are not here but there

Like shadows that run behind 

Or sunlights that cast before 

 

I could say that I miss you today

Then I would be lying again

 

For I, my heart yearns for your kiss,

Every second you are away 

 

If one day you’re gone and I am here 

How could I say I have ever lived 

 

Ever lived to see your smile

Then lived to hear your last goodbye 

 

No matter where I go, 

You are gone, 

You are everywhere

 

But still I wait for you

At nights when you return 

Or nights when I’m alone 

 

I could say I wanted you tonight

But then I wanted you always

 

To live a thousand lives

With you beyond my little mind

 

Then I won’t have to write

For I will say a thousand times 

 

Take me home to your heart 

The warmth of your embrace

Radiates, as suns above the melting seas

 

I cannot wait or leave you more 

Because, 

Even when you are gone

You are still everywhere

Be still, my love, and wait for me 

Wait for my heart, but wait in my heart 

 

Travel away from me to happiness 

But, remember in me your happiness 

 

Go far, but not too far away

For I shall also wait for you

 

In empty homes and crowded streets

Where time becomes eternity

And missing you becomes infinity

 

So take your time to find your life

But don’t get lost from memories 

 

I can wait but only for a day

That day which still will be so long

 

Then I will leave and wait no more

For I shall go far away too

Where I will search for happiness

Until I find myself with you again

I cannot love you as others do

Like Edward loves Bella 

Or Peter loves Lara 

 

I love you as a mother loves her child

Like bees loving flowers 

Or moths loving light 

 

I love you as my father did when he hit me

Or as my dog did when he sees me cry

 

I love you without knowing why I love you

I love you without knowing how I love you

 

I suppose I love you the way moon loves the night

To love so short but forever again 

 

I love you the way I always love you

To love you without asking for you

 

I love you silently but loudly 

I love you slowly but longingly

 

No other way can I love you

But the only way I know to love you 

She stands 

Levitated 

Crown of eclipsed sunlight dancing over the sea

Eyes as crows awaking the disturbed night

I witness 

In all awe 

 

The darkness that torn from her face

A smile of pale moons 

under kisses of billowing clouds

 

All life had ceased 

To wonder 

To behold

Vanishing as leaves of summer to falls 

 

Her fingers reached forth 

Tearing all hearts from its master 

Taking all will from mind enthralled 

 

She comes for me 

In her glory 

Place life into the eyes blinded by her own desires 

 

Expanded 

within the midst of me

Whispered

Born to first light of leo in the sky  

“Julius Emmanuel, 

Goddess among thee”

 

All of me

Created to behold the destiny of her to see 

She leaves 

But returns always 

Like she does always 

 

Nothing, there’s nothing more 

I had knew her 

And she knew me

 

This is life 

This is death 

She was born for me 

As I,

As sky,

As heaven,

As all 

Was born for her 

I will always love you

At least that’s what I want

I will always love you yet I can’t say it to you anymore

Not because I don’t love you but because I don’t want to love you more

I will always love you but I can no longer show you

If I could say I love you I would say it again

Above your lips and underneath your breath

 

I hate that I love you

To love you within that I can no longer love you without

So, then I don’t love you

For loving you I can no longer love anymore

 

If I could change and live again

My love for you, I would do it again

I don’t want to stop loving you yet I don’t want this pain

I will always love you but maybe it’s no longer the same

 

Then now I let you go

To ease your heart to lift my vow

No longer should I say I love you

My lover my soul, I love you now.

Today and tomorrow but no more after.

Still July my love, I will always love you so. 

I am but yours to take

Take me and make me into your own liking

My image shall be your clay

And my spirit shall be at yours to play 

 

Don’t leave or let me be

For to be me is just empty, 

A little self and nothing else

To be yours is to be free, 

A creation spell and everything else

 

Let me be to you, your water or your earth

Use me as tears or make me just dirt

Fill your cup with the spring I give

Or plant your life upon my rib

 

I am but yours to take 

A life once born and a life once died

I made you laugh and I made you cried 

 

Yet still, don’t leave or let me be

Weave me into your tales and make me into your songs

Let me be your last “sorry” or your first “goodbye”

 

Keep me within but use me without

Let me be your only thing, your “never doubt”

And all I ask is here you see

Make me forever more; your memories

You said I didn’t care. 

I didn’t talk to you or ask for you 

You move your heart away from me 

Because you thought there was no way to me 

 

You know, my love, the paths I take

I walk alone yet not alone

The winds and leaves become your voice 

The stars and flowers, they are your eyes

 

Away from you is like to die 

To see darkness, to be deaf and blind. 

Nothing can be away from you 

For natures speak as if for you

You know I cannot be away from you

For the roads I take, they leads to you

 

So then, my love you hurt me now

You said that I had left, for you to drown

 

My love I was in pain

I had struggled, to stay just sane

 

My love I was in pain 

I was without you, I was insane

 

So now I stay alone

You have loved me less,

I cannot love you more

 

If one day you shall forget me

Don’t you worry, I have already forgotten you

But if by little you stop loving me 

Maybe somewhere, there will still be, a little of my love for you

In the morning when the sun gazes her light onto my eyes

In the morning when you left me all by my side

 

There’s no one for me this day I rise

No one to smile and not even to cry 

 

With me you stay, yet, you’re so far away

With me you stay, yet, you’ve already gone away

 

My love, my love, whom I adore

I love you more than love just once

I love you more than just six months

 

My love, my love, whom I “ignored”

If only did you waited just more 

If only did you said just more

 

Today I write again 

My tongue can no longer freely speak words to you

For now our love has slipped away

All for the things I did not say

To love you is to be a fool 

To believe in constellation 

In Aries and Leo

 

To love you is to be like a child

To hold onto you and be called "clingy"

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To love you is to be mad

To park so far away or stand by at the doorway 

 

To love you is to be lost for free

To bind the bodies like twigs of trees

 

To love you is to be paranoid 

To hear footsteps, to watch for voices

 

To love you is to be brave

To hide away in darkness wait

 

But to love you is more than just to be

To love you is whom that's me

You didn’t like it when I first said our “I Love You” 

Yet still, you kissed my lips like you did too 

 

Maybe I can never understand the will of love

Or learn about your love for me

 

But no, I cannot care, for I am blind to only see

Your hands, your feet, your laugh, your sneeze

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Who needs to feel the warmth of love?

When I can hold your body so close 

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Who needs to know the way you love?

When you shiver with me, my lips, my tongue that you gasped free 

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Who needs to tell you of the way I love?

When you still read my words and hear my songs

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Who needs to walk the way of love? 

When I can just love you in "one," "two," and "three"

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One day you might leave me

But still your love I keep with me

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I do not need to know the way of love

For love is you and love is we

I build my house upon your lips

I lay my foundation upon your little twin size bed

 

You once told me there’s a place where you could hide

Under the frame and in the middle of the night

 

But darling, I cannot hide, like shadows of thieves under the bright moonlight

I shall run and run and skip and jump

My feet whispered the stairs while my heart shouted without a care

 

In darkness your silhouette blinded my eyes

And there it was I left my mind

 

Under that guise, we lost our might

A true love kiss that taste of life 

 

You prayed to God and I did too

But not for health or any wealth 

Only to kiss you just once more. 

Do you remember when we first dated? 

The long calls and the endless texts?

You would tell me we can never be 

But then we would stay up and talk til' three 

 

I remember that day when we first embraced 

Everyone knew but we pretended like they don’t anyway

 

Do you remember when I hid away and waited for you? 

We couldn’t eat or talk or play 

I would run to your room and hide away 

Waiting for you to come, minutes were long as days

 

But you always came and smiled so happily 

Can falling in love be so easy? 

 

In summer nights you still kept that heavy blanket

You would push me down and even sit on me

Cover me away if someone came

 

I remember how suffocating it was, so sweaty and so slippery 

It was so hot I felt like dying

Then I would peek my eyes outside, to see your smile, it was worth dying

 

Do you remember when we made jokes about running away?

To Iowa just far from home. No more hiding and no more waiting

Just you and me, chickens, corn and trees 

 

I remember how you would laugh

Four kids, all boys you said! 

There we would stay old and die one day

Under the sun or snow or however Iowa behaved

 

Falling in love can be so easy

Falling in love can be so fun

Because with you, falling in love is all I want

Forgive me, my love, I am fragile today

I couldn’t look at you or say hi to you

My voice breaks away like a nervous child to you

Who could’ve thought I can be so weak for you

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Maybe if I had looked, if I had searched, I could’ve found you

Perhaps if I had just opened my eyes I could’ve seen you

But how could I learn about you when I thought I already knew you

It was my fault I thought I knew all about you 

I told myself maybe I can keep on waiting for you

Then you told me I lost my love when I had waited for you

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Forgive me, my love, I am fragile today

I couldn’t look at you or smile in front of you

I should’ve talked to you then I would still have you

Maybe if I can talk to you I could still have you 

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But I can’t

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Your smile would make me cry, so would your eyes, your lips, they still melt me inside 

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Forgive me, my love, if I can’t do anything, 

For under this disguise I play, I am fragile today

I’m sorry I didn’t talk to you.

Didn’t touch your hands, or hold you close or say I love you

 

Today, all the winter trees have withered away

The sky are all so grey and fragile

So anxiously holding back the fear of uncried tears

 

This place that I call home is now so strange to me; or perhaps, so unneeded to me

This heart that I called mine is now so small for me, so breakable, so vulnerable.

 

I am lost in the midst of all these familiarities

Though you are still here with me, my lover, she has already left me.

Voice of my soul, you have silent me 

 

In my own house I feel utmost lonely 

 

Can I ever force myself to forget you

 

To see you leave and not miss you

 

Oh, my love, my spirit, how can I let you go

 

Rid me of this sorrow or feed my heart up to the crows

 

Immortal ingrained my hope upon your lips

 

A kiss from which my life eclipse

The winds whisper like a soft love song

Leaves change their colours like autumn hair 

The earth, they shout along the paths of dreams

Like birds that lift their wings

Or crickets that want to sing

Like the moon that curves its body

Or the sun that tells story 

 

Stars twinkle like eyes of the sky

The valley swifts over mountains

Like breaths of love to bring

Branches twists and dance about

Like fingers in life of Spring

 

How can I stop loving you 

When all nature for you

To me they sing

Today I woke up early 

To watch the dawn from my balcony

There were songs of birds crying out 

free like hymns of love for lovers that be 

I cleaned your room and tucked your bed 

I fixed everything but left your sheets 

Outside my anxious windows, 

the sun has escaped from your shadows

From up above, the light has pierced itself through the trees

Dusting the air to break the treaties of my peace

 

Here, your scents linger

Amber and mandarin

From this holy place of dwelling, you draw forth your seance 

Calling your laughter to echo 

Crying your tears that soak this air with hope

In the darkness, your silhouette draws my fingers 

The ghost on that bed I once remembered 

I grasp you like a memory 

A haunted house of your memories 

 

Nothing came back to me

Dirt through a net, I am left with nothing of thee 

 

Still, I couldn’t leave 

For leaving is easy 

Coming back is to die and be born again

To see you without you

Or to hear you without you

 

Yet, could I have stayed? 

Would you be there if I turned back

Yelling ‘God damn!’ if I kept calling for you?

I couldn’t leave because I want to be with you

 

So wake up, my love; it is our time

Not one or ten minutes, just listen to the clock sounds!

This room shall be our vow

A haunted place for lovers that haunts

No boils of hell or gates of heaven 

Just you and me, here in this ground

Your umbrella above this well 

The lips from which your weapons bend

You separate the star from its sky

And tore the dew from its pastures

 

Can your hands block out the heaven 

Or rid its earth of love’s wonders?

Would you pluck the poet of his memories

Or rid the songs of its lover shadows? 

 

The world we did create 

Of which such love for us exists

This place that you resides

This place that you would cruelly strike

 

So go towards that life you like

Over the mountains and across these plains

Where happiness of yours are what you choose 

With blue light suns and curly hairs of darken fell 

 

But take not a piece of us with you

Or separate the spirits of ours that be

In this place we shall lay and stay 

Our memories of days that you can’t take away

One week after you left

a friend had came to me

She asked if it was healthy 

to be talking to the dead

 

The thought to console me 

To pick up my life and move on from my mess

She tried to give me peace 

Offering up her own view of happiness

 

I was told to stop buying your favourite cookies

Or find you again within me

That you didn’t care if I bleach my hair

Or keep your photos in my drawers 

 

Somewhere in my sorrow 

I became lost in resentment

The thoughts to find myself

By forgetting you 

 

But I can’t blame her

For she does not know

That you never left me 

 

You are still standing there

Within my memories

Blocking the door camera 

As you stood waiting for me

 

In your blue dress you are so beautiful

With dark straight hair and dark deep eyes

You smile as I walk up 

And lead my hand inside

 

In my dreams I still see you

Together in your little bedroom 

I would work at your desk

As you look at me behind your phone  

 

How can a friend ever know

My lover never let me go

That she’s still my girl 

That I never let her go 

 

My lover is still here 

Even only in dreams and memories

One day I may be better 

But that’s where only we will go

The mists of people that blows like winds across the plains

Lines upon lines of empty stomach and full luggages

 

In this place are stranger people and stranger rules 

Where my water was left behind but the lotion was allowed to fly

 

There was a cafe by the terminal 

A place where deafness was granted to me

 

I took out my book and read to you 

Sitting across from me with your coffee

 

Proust sang his songs to us 

While you laughed at my attempt at French

 

I hate flying and I hate this place

But you can still make it so comforting 

 

Will we ever travel again

Or will I only travel to you in dreams?

 

I got the window seat but someone took it from me

They leaned across to me and spread their arms over mine

 

I wanted to say something but then I saw your face

In this cramped place, I would gladly give you my space

 

How can I fight you when I see your eyes?

Your deep dark eyes that soothe all conflicts 

 

That smile that turns loneliness into loveliness

I miss your smile and I miss you more

 

Today I fly with you but one day I will fly to you 

For wherever you are, I cannot run away from you 

 

Winters will come and summer will fade away

But there won’t be a day that you are not with me to stay

Baby, California is sad today

The clouds have gathered themselves

The rains now wash away the memories of times

 

The sun, the beaches, and the mountains 

All are darken by pillowing shape of reality 

 

My friends said it’s a joy to have rain 

That this is a rebirth for the earth that wrinkled and died 

 

But I can’t relate to people today 

I wept when it rained like I wept when you came

 

Is this a rebirth or is this eternal death?

Can one not die to be reborn or all must suffer Christ? 

 

Must I die to find you again 

or can this life return my bride?

 

Baby, California is sad today

The sun has traded its light for tears of your absence

 

The places that you would go 

Your sundress on the sand 

 

The nights that you would see 

Your smile that makes stars shine

 

The heart that you would love

Your eyes nested in mine

 

But this place is barren now

A wasteland of romantic dreams that was young and green

 

California cry for you today

For beauty that left and was left behind 

 

California cry for me today 

For poems of love now loves alone

Across the window glass

The wind hurls its face to mine

Over clear plains laid on their side

Gallops the legs of rain to pass

 

Twirled in the faint and windy night

Light of moons robe over this room

Shadows of flowers on cradled rest, perfectly bloomed

Beauty darken curls, hair of my July

 

Mourn to the ode of death Victor

Over across the Appalachian

Sun lays rest to love’s patience

Swift cross hades to past days' door

 

Caught to surprise of poet’s cries 

Vanish the gods of tears today

Whisper for taste of words unsaid

Of songs to hearts which love won’t die

Set in my hand your leave 

Come back to me only to depart me be 

Wrapping your chains to memories 

You took my heart and now we’re apart

 

Haunt the shadows of doors you left unclosed

“My mind is set, I’ve found my happiness” 

Play me like dreams in tears that you won’t clean

Giving yourself to those that couldn’t come close 

 

Our hearts were paired but never held

Like keys that fit but cannot turn

You leave our love in attic urns

Of memories of us that you did burn

 

Across the plains you spread your pain

When you can just call me my name

You mourn your hope on other ones

Left me with threads of life undone

 

On days that we will pass away

Our love to hell I still shall say 

“Oh God, I cannot bide for I might cry” 

Without my bride left in July

The day is ripe

Clear from this mind, Seas of no tides 

Cease ghosts of us from memories past

Here voices of times trickle all fear 

 

On roads that leads to me 

Your face appears as fate unclear

In blue sunlight eclipse all mass 

Forget me not among all grass

 

What heart I had I left with you 

Like water to sky you took me dry

Holding my name like it’s a pain 

As clouds so calm that come to rain

 

In whose arms your body now lay? 

Did hands of God took you away? 

To hills up from where I stood still 

Waiting for love that won’t distill 

 

But now the moons are out of tears 

And so our lives ran out of years 

Take me home to green pastures 

At still waters of our laughters 

 

In distant fields where we can lay

Counting the stars like they our days

Leave me for him but do not bide 

Say your goodnight here by my side

Oh, July, my beautiful July

Don’t let a day pass by 

When I’m not on your mind 

 

Read to me of you before your sleep 

Hear from me of you in your love’s keep

 

I shall be your lover in your late night

Or days when rains can make you cry

 

Let the time that flows be our divide 

But like sun that falls to sea 

You can deny but cannot hide 

 

Can I push you to be my light,

Or can I wait for you to pass me by?

 

No, there’s nothing that I can do 

Like I can’t choose where the wind blew 

 

But like rain to grass, our love resides 

The Heaven falls without decides 

And lovers love without their minds 

 

I say it now, so hear my sound

Our hearts were blind, but fate was bound

 

So leave your thoughts and see my eyes

July, my love, you're in my sight

When I tell you I love you

It means that I love you 

 

Not like the loving of a massage 

Or the loving of microwaved pastas 

 

Not like the loving of a pretty face

Or the loving of a blue dress laced 

 

Not like the loving of mint chocolate 

Or the loving of fancy dinner dates

 

Not like the loving of a first kiss 

Or the loving of past days’ bliss 

 

When I tell you I love you

It means that I love you 

 

Not like the loving of being rich 

Or the loving of scratching an itch

 

Not like the loving of expensive perfume

Or the loving of Valentine’s Day balloons 

 

Not like the loving of deep fried calamari

Or the loving of coffee or tea 

 

Not like the loving of loving you 

But the loving of you just you

 

When I tell you I love you

It means that I love you

I have never seen me within your eyes

But only your smile after I made you cry

Then again it was me who made you cry

Or it was you who I let bite 

 

Will I ever hear of your reply 

Like I never heard, 

When I said “I love you” that night 

 

Over in Richmond they see you dance 

Like angels before I die 

Maybe our love can soon unite 

As you call in on my bedside 

 

Never then I will understand 

Why time flew by like soft dry sand 

In which you ran away out of my hand 

 

So then you say I made you sad

Enough to make you mad 

But hate me like I was bad? 

When all I did was all I had 

 

Once there was us one flesh and bones 

Now you decide to go alone 

Because your love rings just one tone 

 

Can this words purge you from me

To set me free from memories

Or they just ghost that lingers free 

Like things you did as you break me  

 

Can you laugh now in your new peace?

One that you can when we can’t be

Fill up your end with strangers like me

 

This world may be a dick 

But not me I wasn’t a prick 

I hid our love in secret attics

To wait for you while you panic

 

Killing us because it’s just your spree 

Maybe in tears you found your glee

But loving me was never your cup of tea

From my eyes I see yours 

Glittering sky twinkle moons and lights

 

There’s no place like your eyes

Where my mind can roam free 

 

A place of sanity and insanity 

A place so lovely for a love so recklessly

 

You are the sun that shines 

Your smile give life to dust flew by 

 

Yet all shall die and wither away

But you and your love shall live all days

 

I love you more than I could tell

More than words from pen to ink that fell

 

More than flowers and colours and sky

For in you are beauty of all satisfy 

 

All nature can cry in jealous cry

When God made you perfectly bright

 

If sky and earth cannot compare

And only breaks in their despair 

 

Then there’s no place I can decide to hide

When near your chest I can forever reside

 

In heaven they shall wait for you

All angels shall count their days for you

 

To jewel they lost in that July

When obeyed to God they made you mine

 

But I shall not take part 

Away from this most precious art 

 

For in your heart embrace my destiny

One that forever shall set me free

Today my love, I can feel your hands

Reaching across and not long loss

I see your touch and soft embrace

Again, you fingers play across my gaze

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Though far away, I see you here

In midst of fear but without tears

I know your smile without a try

For all distance they come to mine

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Let time heal you and all your thrills

But just be still and let love fill

Open your heart just wide apart

To hear my words that won’t depart

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Today, my love, we are friends

And to our wounds we shall all tend

But remember space for just some grace

To future days of our soft pace

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Now that I see some peace

I give you all to destiny

But if one day your love will show

I’ll say to you I never let you go

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For hearts can come to life again

Once there will be little of pain

And fate will take its threads to bound

My vow to you, here in this ground

Tonight I long for her in simmer light

But she has gone out of my sight 

I searched for her in blue moonlights

Among the trees of words she cried 

 

Echo through life “my lover’s gone”

Tear through my heart a joy that torn 

Will I see her in new days’ morn

Or eternal parted like never born 

 

I must have lost her touch too soon

For now my days long for night’s moon 

The space she left like blossoms bloomed

In void of vast sadness that looms 

 

Wander I now without a heart 

In her I left all of life’s charts 

To find the dreams where we don’t part

A path to happiness without a start

 

Her absence now silence my eyes

Spreaded across the earth like sky

Take away from me this sad goodbye 

And let me see the sun within her smile  

writings by

d.s.l.

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