I want to be alone with you
tonight,
I will switch off the moon
asking her for just one moonbeam
to illuminate your body,
I will beg the stars
to go playing with each other
further away from me
and my eyes
to never leave you.
I want to be alone with you
tonight
to stroll on you
with my hands
and to almost touch you
whispering to you with my lips
arabesques of passion
and when tomorrow
I'm left with only the memory of you,
I will ask the stars to come back
to go on playing
and the moon
to leave that moonbeam in my heart.

15.12.'15

I asked the horizon
what freedom is
and he answered
that to understand it
I had to become horizon.
I mounted him
and he took me
where freedom
is not a mirage,
where dreams
don't hide,
because nobody
can ever get here
and if someone asks you
where freedom is
you may reply:
“There, where the horizon is
because no man can ever reach it.”

4.11.'15

I don't want to see
your face saddened
by the darkness of the night
- the sun said to the moon -
and when at dusk
it will be for me time to go,
I will send my stars,
my little stars,
to bring you light.
It will be like this forever
and if it's destiny
that I cannot see you,
my rays will be there
to hold your hand
and the pale light
to give you my love.
The moon cried
and rivers of tears
dug craters
that weakened her body
until the sky realized
that dying of love
is possible.
And then
he allowed the moon
to see the sun now and then
and to stand before him
and kiss him.

2.1.'16

(to all the secret loves)

Yours forever
even if I will
never be yours
because love amuses itself
by playing with the heart
locking it
in the castle of dreams
where dreams never leave
and slowly
are abandoned.
Yours forever
and I will never have you
I'll never take you by hand
we'll never fall asleep together
we'll never wake up
next to each other
we'll never hold each other tight
to keep each other close forever
and to never feel far apart
and I will never kiss you
with lips
embroidered by passion.
Forever yours,
your secret love.

1st.8.'15

Today I don't want to get drunk
on the lights of the city
with its noises, its shouting.
Today I don't want to fill myself
with music until I burst,
I don't want sounds nor voices around me.
I will climb on a star
and holding it by the hand
we'll watch the world from up there
until the lights of the city
call me again.

16.3.'15

Today is Sunday.
The schools are closed.
Thank God
there's such a thing as school
because everybody
has the right to study.
We already went to mass
and we did our duty
as good parishioners.
We already washed the dogs.
God,
what wonderful animals
dogs are.
Loving animals
is a beautiful thing.
Today there's no meeting
of the Anti-Hunting Association.
The Child Protection fundraiser
is tonight.
This morning
we are free.
Let's go fishing, son.
So we will have
a little fun.

30.7.'10

From the high banks
I leant forward to watch it
and the river
that from the middle of the mountain
to the valley
quietly came down,
upon catching sight of me
greeted me happily.
“Run, Mister river,
because today I will catch you.”
And I ran, ran
chasing the waves
and the amused animals
crowded around its edges.
The sea was waiting
for the champion of the day.
“Do run, Mister river,
but I'll be the first to arrive.”
The sun watched
calling the clouds
to give me a little shade,
the wind blew
to refresh me
and the river itself,
that loved me,
sprinkled water
on its rocks
which would fall upon me.
A boy and a river
that playfully fought with each other
and then stopped at the seaside
to rest
till the evening.
From the high banks
now I lean forward to watch it.
“We have grown old,
Mister river.
Your water is *****
and everything around you
has changed.
I'm no longer that boy
and within me
there are many wounds.”
Along the river
now I walk
and it greets me happily,
then I stop
and it watches me

till the evening.

28.2.'15