The East Wind
In honor of the East Wind, I bring you a few reflections on the wind, air, and landscapes.
*Recommended playlist while you read it: Enjoy The Silence (sung by Susan Boyle), Ta Place dans ce Monde (sung and written by Gauvain Sers), and/or El Lugar Correcto (written and sung by Natalia Lafourcade).
Cosmic mountains
Waking up with the view of the clouds touching the skyscraper
Where I live.
I subtly feel the air that comes and goes
As the Eastern wind pushes us back to
Places we haven’t seen in ages.
In a diaspora of airwaves that
Bring fresh new air and that
Collapses with the fall of the buildings
Surrounding the city.
As I breathe,
Deeply breathing the last particles of oxygen
In the air.
I enter into a paradisiacal land.
Where the wind blows softly, where the trees
Communicate gently.
Where the animals speak respectfully.
And where the fields are greener than those
On the surface of the most inhabited lands.
I finally saw a place.
In a vast universe
Of palm trees, oak trees, and all the beautiful
Natural creatures that could exist.
Those that no one else I knew had known.
Those that only my ancestors had felt.
The place
That makes you feel the peace within every
Atome of your existing entities.
That’s when I realized that we’re all processes
And cohabited beings of an extensive system
In an immense multitude of stellar dances.
Cosmically connected to the forces
That makes everything grow.
I then saw the seas shaking like two dancers,
Moving according to their last ballades
Of a folkloric time.
In an age where smiles prosper,
And where you can find
Happiness everywhere.
All the beautiful beings
Walking around and celebrating
The joy of having the moment
To live and to have lived
Every second within a second.
And as the minutes pass by,
To enjoy the light of the minutes
Of a short meeting called life.
That’s when the cosmic seas were
Feeling a sudden change of
Currents coming from all the galaxies.
Everywhere, anywhere, somewhere.
A place that remains a secret
For those who live, but not for those
Who were here in this place.
Where I am now.
In one of the different skyscrapers
Above the cosmic mountains.
Every entity is a pulsar
Every entity surrounds
Itself in a world of imaginary
Poems and beauty.
Emitting its bright energy
In its peculiar way.
In a singular path.
In a cosmic singularity
Of new forces
New energies
New interpretations.
New ways of thinking
And understanding what
Has happened in one’s own
Story.
A story that becomes
One own’s history.
In a singularity of events.
Of which most of us won’t ever
Know, in every single particle
Of this existence.
Just like the singularity
Of entities.
That we don’t know that ever
Existed.
But that somehow
Existed.
Bucolic landscapes
In a place where the river is finally here.
As I feel it while walking through it.
Crossing it as if I could walk above the water.
I feel all the wet molecules touching my feet.
I see the fish moving in and out of the river.
As the birds get closer to search for some food.
I see the trees feeling the warm weather,
Along with the leaves and blooming flowers.
I see a natural creature, and I take their hand.
We walk through the river and see the other
Natural creatures, the beauty in everything,
And the bright sunshine that inspires us in the
Bucolic landscapes.
As all the animals come to make us company.
We communicate with them as if we could
Hear them telling us something about
The mystery behind why we can walk above the water.
Without sinking in and suffocating ourselves.
The secret is that for us to know why we can do
What we can do, we’d need to leave the surface.
And embrace ourselves into life under the water.
We’d need to go and see what happens.
On the day we, the natural creatures, decided to go under
The surface.
We saw the reflection of all the animals, trees,
Stones and the clouds in the sky.
But when we looked deeper, we remembered that we didn’t know
How to communicate with the fish.
Only with the living creatures outside the water.
That’s when we had to communicate with the hippos and the frogs
And all the related creatures for a piece of advice.
We wanted to know what the world under the surface is like.
After a few exchanges, we perceived that
That world was still like the one above.
So we dived into that reality.
That’s when we discovered that the fish could
Communicate too, and so did all the other creatures living
In the river.
Then we arrived at a place where the river meets the sea.
And we discovered that it was an immense water land.
It was a big universe of different living creatures and moving waters.
We didn’t know anyone who knew it, but the turtles, whales and the penguins did.
Then, we decided to search for the cold lands and waters.
That’s when we found the penguins between the warmth and the coldness.
They advised us on how to swim in the cold sea.
Then we discovered after a few years that we could swim wherever
We had to, and that the strength of the waters wouldn’t detain us
But would inspire us to seek guidance and
To know how to guide the waters
Within our inner rivers.
Fresh Air
Waking up The challenges arise
To show us an enormous
Room for growth.
To give us enough space
To think. Critically.
About all the things
Deep inside our minds
And the universe.
The challenges are
Not supposed to be easy.
And because they’re rough,
Harsh, intricate,
Everything looks more
Colorful at the end
Once they’re gone
For new challenges
And experiences to
Come.
At the end, as my
Beloved east wind
Would tell me
We are the ones
That complicate this life.
While it was supposed
To be easy.
However, with so
Much wisdom
Lost in the air.
Life with its challenges
Is the source
Of newness,
Discoveries, lights, and most
Importantly, times
That made us think that everything
Was challenging.
But we knew that
It was also the time
To reflect on the winds,
The new seasons coming.
And our hearts
Meeting in this foggy weather
And melting in the surface of
This cosmic smoke.
Our stories remain as if we
Were all parts of
Astronomical objects,
Becoming subjects,
Metaphysically, of course.
And just like the east wind,
We feel the need for
The fresh air, the constant
Need for the fresh air.
Anemoi
We contact the winds
Asking for answers
To feel the power of nature.
So that our natural selves
Can feel alive.
The winds with all its directions.
Guiding us
To know which wind is
The best for every moment.
We must choose one of them.
Even when sometimes it feels like
We are floating in the air.
We embrace the winds.
They’re our ancestors,
They’re the source of the
Exchanges we keep with the
Air and sometimes with the vacuum.
In a multitude of movements, trying to
Connect with us while they’re in the space.
And we try to feel them and
All the forces that support us.
