Los Rodríguez, led by Andrés Calamaro, sang: “I’ve been beaten because the world made me this way / I can’t change / I’m over-the-counter medicine and your love / my disease”. It is a universal truth, love is a disease that we all suffer once in our lives, but there are poor people who have never suffered from it. Instead, there are those who find fulfillment while they are in the process of falling in love. The stupor that produces them causes them to lose their sense of time and space. Love can invalidate us, making us sad, lost, aimless and muddy.
Eros written by Bernardo Rafael, a book published by Donbuk publishing house has been released, a treatise on love. But he doesn’t just talk about bodily love or desire in the form of passion, he talks about another love or other loves just as important. The poem Soledad is perhaps a reflection of the longing for love: «Years ago in the same cafe, / I continue to sit in the same armchair / as you pass me / a ghost in the twilight. in the afternoon / And the kisses you didn’t give me / the laughter that washed my blood / the memories I didn’t live / the eyes that never looked at me take me over.
Longing, nostalgia and melancholy fill Bernardo’s poems, because his love poem is filled with these feelings. Joaquín Sabina sang in probably his best song for me, wrinkling his forehead: “There is no worse nostalgia than missing something that never, ever happened. As real as life itself. But like life, love takes a breather ». Bernardo reflects this perfectly in his poem Breath of the Butterflies: «Life, your name lasts long in my mouth, / your presence is unnoticed, it is fleeting, / it is cruel, painful, capricious and unfaithful / and fleeting. like the lost breath of butterflies. That’s what love is, a temporary thing that disappears in an instant: the moments you don’t live stay there, and what you experience stays in the memory, which is nothing but reliving every time you remember it.
Eros Unleashed contains sixty-two poems in which Eros appears for a moment in each line. Bernardo Rafael has left his mark on every verse, there is a lot of the author in this work. There is also a very distinct social aspect to the book. Bernardo, like a great humanist, describes the unfair situations he witnessed in his poems, as in I Said Once… “I once said ‘to be a woman and not die trying’…’ / But she is on the same sidewalks, / in the same corners and in the same continues to die in fears.” Because this is life, hard and happy moments and sorrows or joys of both.
Bernardo wrote a collection of poems to tell the world how he felt. These feelings are like his life story and the things that surround him. He expresses everything that happens to him in a very clear, clean poem, without major works. This work is a reflection of his life and life itself, how bittersweet existence is, and the troubles that befall people. Because nothing is straight or linear, everything has its ups and downs, its ups and downs. Because it is love that ultimately saves life, saves us all from disaster. As Bernardo says in his poem There is no Time: «2Without time and with sadness on its wings / only love roams the waters, / only death without love and fear / Time, neither melancholy nor death. guitar.