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346 · Dec 2024
Unsuitable Grace
Chiara Dec 2024
There is a brunette lady
dancing in a white camping tent

from the outside you would say
that it is not a suitable place for grace

but no one knows that is the palace
of love and fear
where you can feel the heart move
the heart balance

make love with fear
make love with life
And being the fear of making love

no one knows that is the place
where a green labyrinth grows
and a rootless plum tree stands on a checkered floor

wonders what matters
to look for a suitable place

if you drink water in the desert
if black and white chess makes you
a graceless body
In need of giving love
In need of being loved.

Roll and Watching the doves playing.

Roll.
And
Watching the Doves.

In the white camping tent.
© Chiara Santarelli
235 · Dec 2024
I heard a knock
Chiara Dec 2024
the source of my love
is the same one that it takes me away from you

but it's too close
and I feel it alive
It bounces in all walls of my body
© Chiara Santarelli
92 · Oct 2024
Picture
Chiara Oct 2024
Mother sacrifice
Fix the white canvas in the corner
Too far away to paint
Too close for the mind
There's nothing more to say
She regrets her interrupted dreams
And watching her son realizing them
She paints over the melancholy
of her empty pictures.


Dear Mother,
It is not too late.
There is still so much to paint.
© Chiara Santarelli
90 · Dec 2024
& The All Same
Chiara Dec 2024
The anemic little girl makes the mannequins blush
she fills her pockets with books
to tear herself away from fake tenderness
from flower lovers

she jumps from hat to hat
and with magic tricks disappears

there's no caustic world
no poison that can pollute the blood
she knows where she doesn't want to stay


to protect herself
     from The All Same
© Chiara Santarelli
79 · Oct 2024
A Pain for A Light
Chiara Oct 2024
Think that we're not the only ones
Feel like this skin isn't fully mine
Sometimes i am the lives of others
Otherwise i am no one's life
Understand that even pain has its own lightness.
It must be understood and caressed
A pain for its brightness
The most fragile crystal you could see.
© Chiara Santarelli
72 · Nov 2024
time to be
Chiara Nov 2024
waiting in full light
for the vibrant rays to sink their caresses
into the white of the bone,
into the tender flesh.

between the nerves, overlapping one another.
where there's nothing more than empty spaces.

I let the golden burnt Thought fall from my hands,
drying up of every heartbeat felt
in the warm October Harvest
© Chiara Santarelli

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