sabato 12 febbraio 2011

To a passers by

The deafening road around me roared.

Tall, slim, in deep mourning, making majestic grief,

A woman passed, lifting and swinging

With a pompous gesture the ornamental hem of her garment,



Swift and noble, with statuesque limb.

As for me, I drank, twitching like an old roué,

From her eye, livid sky where the hurricane is born,

The softness that fascinates and the pleasure that kills,



A gleam... then night! O fleeting beauty,

Your glance has given me sudden rebirth,

Shall I see you again only in eternity?



Somewhere else, very far from here! Too late! Perhaps never!

For I do not know where you flee, nor you where I am going,

O you whom I would have loved, O you who knew it!

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