TIME AND SPACE

You haunt me in my dreams, like a ghost,

You whisper in my ear luminous words

You flood me with wreaths of light and scent,

Words never spoken.

In my dreams I feel you beside me, so close!

Your embrace lulling me,

It takes me to places never imagined

Unreal places of fantasy.

When I awake I get lost in my memory of you,

I think of you thinking of me,

I see myself reflected in your lost gaze, of light and shadow.

And reality falls upon me, in those moments of awake dream.

Lonely and deserted in this world of reality

Drifting…

But then, you come back to me

I feel your hand on my shoulder,

Protecting me.

And reality no longer suffocates me, because you are with me

And your lips of air keep on whispering

That I am not alone

And you tell me about parallel universes

And how, somewhere in time, we are as close as we are right now

And how in space there is a place for us

And how you traveled to me, in your flight of stars

So that I can also feel you beside me here.

You tell me about our life beyond this world

You tell me that we are together since the beginning of time

Wandering through universes, meeting on the clouds.

And I remember you.

I know I always look for you,

And I know you were always by my side.

Notwithstanding time and distance,

Notwithstanding oblivion and rain.

I can stop searching for you, my soul complete.

I can go on, you with me always,

After your flight through the stars.

Feet in the sand, garlands on my hair.

My heart free, the quest over

Filling the empty well in my soul.

Together, as always, somewhere in time and space.

FAITH

Whenever you look at me

I think I could fall in love with you

Whenever you talk to me

I think I could fall in love with you

Because your stormy, burning eyes

Could melt my ice armour, built with so many tears

And your deep, vibrant voice

Could shatter my armour of ice, the tears falling to the ground

Poisoning the flowers

Whenever you look at me

I might think that you love me

Whenever you talk to me

I might think you’re in love with me

And I will believe it, like a child in Christmas

I’ll believe your every word, defenseless without my armour

You will tell me about those rivers in China you want to show me

And about your life, so empty until you met me

You will tell me about the stars

You will tell me how different they look

Ever since you met me

You will tell me about that hidden place in the Island

That you discovered

And how it will be our haven, and how we’ll go there fighting the waves in our ship of red sails

A love like ours

Nobody knew

And you will tell me about the mountains in Nepal

That time you went there, the wonder

And how we’ll go together, riding the whitest horse, blending in the snow

And you will tell me about the sunsets in Kenya

So bright, so powerful their scent

That would not be the same

When I’ll be there with you

How you thought it was a fantasy, magical, unreal

And it was nothing

Until I was with you

And I will believe you, like a child in Christmas

I’ll believe your every word, defenseless without my armour

When you say you love me

And I will lose myself in you

And there will be only you

And I will see through your eyes, stormy, burning

And I will hear only your voice, deep, vibrant

And there will be nothing else

And I will give you my very self

My every thought will be for you

My only time will be with you

My every breath will come from you

I will believe you

When you tell me there are no longer rivers in China

There is no longer a hidden place in the Island

There are no longer mountains in Nepal

There are no longer sunsets in Kenya

No red sails, no white horses

All vanished, all ashes of a dream that will never be

And I will not see anymore, without your eyes (stormy, burning)

And I will not hear anymore, without your voice (deep, vibrant)

And you’ll give me back my own self, now so empty

And my every thought will be for you

And you’ll be no longer there

My only time will be with you

And you’ll never be there

My only breath will come from you

You only an absence

Do not look at me, my beloved

Do not talk to me, my life

Because I think I could fall in love with you

THE MISTY TREE

At the feet of the tree, the summer tree, I played

I played when I was a little girl, with other little girls,

Our laughter reached the sky, it was so loud

Our white dresses flied, shinning

Around the summer tree

We took each others hands over the green grass

And around the tree we were a ring, a white ring, in perpetuous movement

Around the summer tree

At the feet of the tree, the night tree, I thought I was an adult

And in the night we met, my friends and me

And at the feet of the tree we talked, and talked, and talked until the sunrise

In our trousers, smoking cigarettes of adults

And knowing line by line every line in our lives

Which we alredy knew

Around the night tree

At the feet of the tree, the sundown tree, I met you

And you were not in any of the lines of my life

Which I so well knew

And it is you I met, at the feet of the sundown tree

And my heart exploded, and my heart was flying

And my heart did not have space in my chest, and went away

Flying with his fire wings, at the feet of the sundown tree

And I caught it and in golden cage I kept it

And to you I gave it, for you to mind it

My heart, that had flied

At the feet of sundown

At the feet of the tree, the twiglight tree, I recognised you

And I saw your glance, looking throught me

And I discovered that I had found myself, finding you

And I thought that nothing knew the poets about love

Because they didn't know mine to you

And at the feet of the twilight tree I gave you all my being

Because it was alredy yours, mine not

At the feet of the twilight tree

At the feet of the tree, the midday tree, I waited for you

I waited while you fed my heart,in its golden cage

I waited for you while you took care of it and made it bloom with roses with your love

And I waited for you and you arrived at last, and I felt my heart bloom, and I felt its fast beating

From strengh

From the strengh of your love

At the feet of the midday tree

At the feet of the tree, the misty tree, you arrived 

And you brought me my cage, with my heart

You were bored of minding it, my heart

You no longer fed it, it did not bloom, it was half alive

My heart

And there you left it

At the feet of the misty tree

At the feet of the tree, the autumn tree, time went by

And I stared, stared the at the path that  brought you to me

But there was just mist

And time went by

And my heart fell to ground, half alive

And time went by

And for an instant, a brief instant, I quit staring the path

And I found a rosebed, in the place where my heart had fell

And it was already not half alive

And roses were more red than colour red

And their fragance was sweeter than the sweetest sweet

And it entered my body

At the feet of the spring tree