Los Novios

Married 05.25.2019

Ours is a good love

a classic love

settled, secure, durable

like big brown sexy

pillars of the gay community.

Pillars that many wish they could

twirl around- like some carefree stripper

we  know you want this!

We are a lusty kind of love.

Loving ourselves is loving our community

archiving its beauty in the poetry we speak

and in the portraits we create.

Line by line recording the shades

and shadows in the lives

of our brown gente

magagandang tao.

Because loving our community

is loving ourselves.

Our love is

promising

like the trunks that are your arms

malakas

promising comfort, security

and love when they wrap around

me.

Our love is

endless, like the many barriers,

the challenges big and small

that have threatened

the world we’ve  built

together...and we look back

shine our big, bright beautiful smiles

at all that we’ve overcome

and feel comforted in knowing

that our love is built for a lifetime.

Our love is great

historic

Viejo!

My man!

Eres mi viejo amor

Amor del bueno

Que me hace suspirar

makes my purple prickly-pair of a heart

beat steadfastly against the walls

of my chest flooding my veins

with a kaleidoscope of emotions.

23 years later

and you still push me to the edge,

push  me to my limits

just as suddenly as you pull me back to my center

to find my core with you

our place of understanding.

I used to be like an iris measuring the light

to which I exposed myself to.

When I saw you  

I opened myself to fully take you in.

I see you Love

Good love

Old love

Classic love

Man love

Aking pagmamahal

Brown love

My love.

*poem written in honor of Hector and Napo's passionate love