Online

Enter message here,
then you hit confirm
hoping someone out there
will tell you not to run.

I don't dislike
the public chat
and everything online -
all those vacuum rooms.

Virtual they call it -
no limits they promote
but in those friendly places
I see only ghosts.

You will put a picture there

smiling at the lens,

having so much fun

looking like a bun.

And I know - you're decent
boy or girl or I don't know..
We're online! Stay.
And I won't ask for name.

We'll talk about the weather,

some funny picture you will send,

I'll give you back a clip.

And then we'll laugh a bit.

I might ask we go outside

and see where this will lead.

So why don't we? There we go.

Tomorrow we'll forget it all.

In my pride I'm mighty
yet still I'm here alone -
begging you to please me
and never to let go.

Joy

If the night feels too cold
turn to me and lightly kiss me.
I will wake to hold you close,
to warm your skin until you're sleeping.

And I'll keep you close to me
knowing that for you I'm living.
In few hours dawn will brake
and I hope to find you here.

You are all that I could need -
gently smiling - still so strong,
so prepared to live this life
with all its beauty and misfortunes.

Morning came, again you smiled
opening your eyes a little.
I am here, love, let's begin -
a day with you, a day of joy.

Kalin Toshkov Staikov, 2009 ©

Fury

Through the reddish mist
of fury dangerously growing
I won't feel regret.
I won't feel a thing
but the temptation -
give me a hammer and
everything I shall call
... a nail!

Kalin Toshkov Staikov, 2009 ©

I believe

I believe in nature
and its holy purpose.
I remember heaven
through the eyes of child.

I will see the Sun through
clouds of broken idols
and misleaded leaders
of condemned religion.

I don't say His name
in vein, empty wishes
yet - believe in Power
enmeshed within my being.

And yes - I believe it!
I believe in myself -
reaching for the Purpose
of my whole existence.

Forever in my reach -
wherever I might need it.
The power of creation -
the power to fulfil.

Kalin Toshkov Staikov, 2009 ©

Thinking Of You

It's not too long ago when days
passed like nothing ever changes -
day by day and all the nights
I felt quite good while feeling empty.

And I knew that all will pass
resurrecting something special
and I knew that life will seem
like forgotten fairy realm.

Now I'm changed - somehow renewed
to new unknown vibrant temptations
that I came to know with you -
the one I seek for such long years.

I didn't saw your shining smile
and words from you I didn't heard
but yet I knew that I know you
and yet I knew that you are special.

"Tell me stories" you once asked
and I told you what I'm dreaming.
Then you found me to remake
the nature of my daily living.

And "I love you" I would say
but too many times I've said it
and the meaning my heart seek
words would never could of tell you.

Kalin Toshkov Staykov, 2009 ©

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Dedicated to my beloved Nora

I wish

I wish this world to end
and something new to come.
I wish I know the truth
behind the veil of being.

The truth I surely knew
before I came to life
and force myself to be
in solid, frail shell.

I breathe the poison air
and drink some beverage
of wasted holy substance
that once the nature made.

My only wish - to see
beyond this strange existence
and feel beyond my senses
and know what's left unsaid.

Deceive me and I'll feel you.
Forgive me that I know
and show what's left out there
for me to understand.

Kalin Toshkov Staikov, 2009 ©