it wasn’t me who invented love by my ignorance the same way the painter doesn’t have the heart to mix pure colors it was there in the times when I used to swot the differences between useful beautiful and pleasing
first of all there grew a tree with red leaves like man’s or woman’s lips before the first kiss leaves were another kind of hands trembling preparing to fall rustle over rustle till the last silence
only by chance I shared the same shadow with a stranger for the jealousy of those who did not know me I waited for centuries close to the old tree trunk my cheek against the dry ground I couldn’t refuse him when he asked me to lend him a leaf and I didn’t even know where do young butterflies hide when it rains bitter
people say that after a day that tree was brought down today no one kills himself because of love they’re simply killed little by little