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    Sailing the Stars
    Sailing the Stars
    Sailing the Stars
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    Sailing the Stars

    By Aksel Villegas

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    A collection of personal poems about love & heartbreak. The kind of love where it may not fit in the universe, or the goodbyes that break the rules of time and take forever to get across.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateApr 24, 2024
    ISBN9798369413418
    Sailing the Stars
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    Aksel Villegas

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      Sailing the Stars - Aksel Villegas

      Copyright © 2024 by Aksel Villegas.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 04/24/2024

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      Contents

      The Beginning of the Universe 

      Meeting You 

      Our Overture 

      The Difference Between a Glass Bottle & The Heart 

      The Art of Falling 

      Rich 

      Snapchat 

      A Strawberry Kind of Love 

      Our Perpetual Time Machine 

      Your Ocean 

      You Again 

      Intimate 

      Missing 

      Waltzing Wonders 

      Candied Fruits 

      Wanna Shower Together? 

      The Masterpiece of the Universe 

      Twilight 

      I Am Yours 

      Celestial 

      Past Lives 

      Xcelerator 

      The Ashes to Come 

      Cuando Hablas 

      Hers 

      You Are My Religion 

      Trojans 

      The Waters of Venus 

      Blurred Lines 

      Next Please 

      Thin Line 

      Your Poetry 

      Parachute 

      The Chamber 

      Writing 

      I Admit 

      Distance 

      Looking for a Way Out 

      Broken Keys 

      Thank You 

      Opposite Ends 

      In the Night 

      Nave Espacial 34 

      Fires 

      When the Poet Becomes an Architect 

      Our Old Garden 

      π 

      Pour Salt on the Ground and Nothing Will Grow There 

      I Bring Flowers for the Bees 

      Losing You 

      Where Are We? 

      The Morning After 

      Floating Away 

      Practice 

      Silence 

      Fully Empty 

      Honeybee 

      The Deafening of Our Music 

      The Farewell Without the Goodbye 

      Espérame Hasta el Ultimo 

      Distance, Part Two 

      W i n e 

      Oasis 

      In the Name of Love 

      ??/??/???? 

      Blue Jeans 

      If I Could Turn Back Time, 

      Holding What’s Left in My Hands 

      Do (Forget About Me) 

      The Eleventh Hour 

      Rendezvous & New Places 

      I Love You 

      V 

      The Beginning of the Universe

      you came out of nowhere,

      and i followed you.

      we were once

      the only things in existence,

      and we danced

      until we collided.

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      Meeting You

      now i know we don’t know each other, but if we did

      i would follow the

      bassline

                your heart

                             

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