If I keep my voice within,
It becomes a dragon
A dangerous one
With flames
Invisible one
That eats dignity
And eats meaning
And feeds itself on senselessness
Nonsense is what it breeds
Nothingness makes it survive
And reasons disappear
New black ones come out
And then there is no escape
The voice kept within
The silence in your life
Kills you
With inaction
And irony
And anger
And lies
Deception 

J.GJ. 
​2012

Peaceful creatures 
Two cats
A man
Three birds
In sleep
Peaceful and together
In love
Souls wondering in other worlds
In hope
Beauties not faking life
In sleep
 
And the awake 
Feel 
Peaceful
Dreamful
Hopeful 
In their sleep
In their love
A dozen flowers 
A woman
And some bananas
In colors
Observing…

J.GJ.
​2013

Out of a window
You can have the most beautiful moments
Looking out of that window
From your library chair
Over your laptop screen
Life happens
Out of a window
Leaves fly
The wind blows
Waltzes excite leaves
Big ones, little ones
Riding the airy flows
And colors explode
They move as you work
And eyes catch them sometimes
Memory snapshots
And you get amazed
At momentary beauty
And hurry to share
Pointing at them
The fire full sky
The white grayish clouds
The black blue dark night
Approaching there far
Out of a window
Happiness waits
Its energy grabbed
Inside the library flaked
Among the words on paper
Among the pages on books
Among the scribbles on documents
Intensely worked through
That’s work in the library
Amazing surprisingly
Where hope pushes forward
To open new windows
Towards a different world
Wishing it saves for us
The same exciting beauty
We find out of a window
This fall
 
J.GJ.
23 October 2013
Alderman Library, UVA, Charlottesville, VA 

Get me out of here
The room
The walls

Get me out of here
The thoughts
The gloom
​
I am waiting
 
Get me out of here
The streets
The parks
The sky
The joy
 
They are waiting

J.GJ.
May 27, 2014

 Duty comes from Love
Or for some
Love from Duty
We are confused beings
Humanity confuses us
And we forget
Which one came first
Duty or Love
Love or Duty
And we end up equating them
And being misunderstood
Or misunderstanding ourselves
And being mistreated
Or mistreating ourselves
We forget to look back
Equality is ours
Equations are just and fair
They are the truths we cannot question
Anymore, anytime
And all becomes superficial
Our truths others’
Others’ truths worthless
And we stop getting to our heart
And we stop talking from our heart
And our heart
Bleeds
Hurts
Hardens
Becomes a machine
That serves duty
And love becomes a mystery
No one can solve
Must solve
Or talk about
 
J.GJ.
January 31, 2015 

That is how I feel now
My laptop knows
It told me
There are no windows
No available windows 
Windows to look from
Windows to jump from
Windows to open and get out
Windows to lock
And open
And breath
The fresh air welcoming
Regenerating my hope
My smile
My way
Of living
Every day
With a screen
And the deadline
Of a dissertation
Closeby
No available windows 
Are there?

​J.GJ. 
November 2, 2017
Boston College

It is the cat’s sleep
Its being there that gets me 
Every time
To relax and to relax
There is no question
 
J. Gj.
July 2020