Black and White

Hello everyone!!! I am very excited to begin my journey into the world of blogging! I have my baby sister Laura to thank for this(ok shes like 20 but shes still a baby to me!). But I hope to be able to post my work here- I love the abstract and farfetched, the bizarre and the beautiful. I love to dream and honestly most the ideas that I get for my pieces are from dreams themselves. But I hope at least something I have written or will write can inspire you, inspire you to be better, live better, love better. I hope it helps you see beauty in things you hadn't thought of before. Together lets dream like kings and learn to make even what you cant see a reality. Of course, I always want to know any/all opinions of my work. Dont worry-I can take it. :) Today, I want to post a poem I wrote called Black and White. After writing it in English, I translated it, and now I think I like it even better in Spanish. But I'll let you all be the judge. The words in each are just a little different. So here it is in English and in Spanish. I hope you all like it!!

Black and White

Sometimes we live in black and white

Out of touch, out of mind, out of feeling and sight.

We stay within the boundaries. We stay in the lines,

Keeping to the ordinary, remaining confined.

A life without color, a life without change

Is a waste of potential- boring, mundane.

But with the birth of a child are born new colors and hues;

The most beautiful greens and the deepest of blues.

New birth gives life color which reminds us each day

That change is a miracle in so many ways.

Just think for a moment of how one color, lets say… green

With a touch of blue and yellow becomes aquamarine.

With each color we add and each one that is mixed

The possibilities are endless- not limited, not fixed.

And as all the colors dance one with another,

We see that life is something glorious.

With the birth of one man, because of just one day,

A million lives will change and the colors shine in new ways.

The day you were born, the world changed because you took away the rules
and took away the limits.

No longer black and white.

You added color to the world and made the colors

dance in ways no one had ever seen before.

It was one day, but it changed a million lives.

And that is why each morning before I wake up beneath

the light of the fading stars,

I celebrate the lives you have painted,

the sunrise you have made,

and I remember how, before and forever, you have made the colors dance.

Blanco y Negro

A veces vivimos en blanco y negro,

Fuera de los cinco sentidos.

Nos quedamos dentro de los límites, dentro de las líneas,

Siempre al lado de lo ordinario, siempre parte de lo contenido.

Una vida sin color y una vida sin cambio

Es un desperdicio de potencial- aburrido, mundano.

Pero con el nacimiento de un niño, nuevos colores se nacen.

Verdes y dorados hermosos, amarillos y azules profundos.

Un nuevo nacimiento da colores a la vida, colores que nos recuerda cada día

Que el cambio es un milagro en tantas maneras.

Piensa, por un momento, en un color- digamos…verde.

Si le agrego un poco amarillo y azul, el verde se vuelve aguamarina.

Por cada color que se puede agregar, por cada uno que se puede mezclar

Cualquier color en cualquier momento puede despojarse de sus límites, librarse de sus reglas.

Y cuando bailan los colores unos con otros,

Vemos que la vida es algo glorioso, un don de Dios y de nuestras madres.

A causa del nacimiento de un hombre, por solo un día,

Un millón de vidas cambiarán y los colores brillan en nuevas maneras.

El día que naciste, cambiaste todo porque quitaste las reglas
y quitaste los límites.

El blanco y el negro dejaron de ser.

Agregaste color a la vida y hiciste q bailaran los colores en maneras que nadie jamás había visto. Era un día, pero cambió el mundo. Y por eso, cada mañana antes de despertar debajo de la luz de las estrellas invisibles,

celebro las vidas que has pintado,

el amanecer que me has dado,

y recuerdo como, antes y para siempre, has hecho que bailaran los colores.