Only God lasts forever
They're all gone
those duelists
who
succumbed
in front
of other invincible warriors.
And are also gone
those loves
that challenged
the time,
are collapsed
even the walls
and those towers
that soared
into the sky.
Only You, Lord,
Can last forever
Remember
Remember
you are just passing through
the Earth
and the world does not belong to you
but it's your body
that belongs to Earth;
Remember
that love has to be built
slowly,
while passion
burns quickly everything;
Remember
that every man
has its own dignity
and deserves all respect.
Remember
of those who sowed
when you reap;
Remember
to greet the sun
every time he gets up
and every time it sets down.
Remember
that you are light
which illuminates
the darkness of eternity.
Mystery of my love
I
I have never loved,
since never loved me
the women I loved
and I didn't love
those who tried to love me!
II
I first pursued
Impossible loves,
and when the overwhelming body
forced me, I loved,
but it was not love;
it surely was sweet discovery of pleasure,
flesh into flesh, fire with fire
fury subsided into the abyss of life;
but it was not love.
III
Neither was love
the spasm which I waited
to see the air been colored
by your forms,
when it was enough for me
to feel your presence
ethereal and impalpable, although present,
yet not mine
and it was not love.
IV
I'm so still in search of you, sublime,
decanted love.
Who are you fleeting present of God?
Are you for all of us or just for a few?
Do you really exist oh my Elem?
Are you a catcher of hearts and reason?
Real or unreal?
Liar or truthful?
V
I'm still seeking of you,
poignant love
unveiled eyes,
flying mate,
slave and mistress,
mother and lover,
mystery of life!
Whirl sounds arise from
the hollow meanderings of men;
meaningless,
loveless,
endless
words
floating in the vacuity
of mind's precipices;
offending silence words!
Alone in the trembling night
When the vagueness
of illusion
It is no longer day
In the shadow of
the flame
I expect you to
reach me
From undefined directions
Through the
countless paths
That lead from
soul to soul.
I wonder if a
heart beats with mine!
But I am lonely
In the trembling
night.
Lonely
is passing another day
Lonely is passing another day
while the sun is trying to breach down the sky
on its way to
the other side of the earth
I ask myself. “Why do we have to suffer?”
II
Loner I’m passing another day
Over my restless soul
With no certain direction
And I ask myself:
“What I am looking for?”
III
Lonely is passing another day
And I fear the unknown
And I don’t fight for money
And I don’t fight for love
and I ask myself:
“Why don’t I leave
For the infinity ways
Lay aside on the world?”
Loner I’m passing another day
In Sardinia February 1984
For my
brother's death Peter Marino
You're back to your
mystery
After crossing a
desert
of loneliness;
you were too
generous
to share your
sorrows with others
and you've never known love.
Now the dawn of
silence
separates us forever;
and only prayers
remain to me
to thank you
for what you have been.
The path of no return
Without any spasm
proceeds my existence
In this mountain’s
corner,
while the wind
whistles peace all around!
It would be easy
to join his melodious breath
if only I could
forget
the world I
come from!
I'm tired of my
anguished heart
Of this absurd
life!
But how can I
forget
These birds of
death
Circling over our
heads
volcanoes of war
surrounding as a
powder magazine
at the mercy of
the powerful?
And when the sky
embraces
the retreating sun,
a shining ring
charming and
desperate
leads me to wonder
if man has not
already taken
a path of no
return.
I don’t know
I don't know Elem
if you show your nudity
for money, for hedonism
or for shallow pleasure
But I know
I took delight
at your performance
for my own shame
As a matter of fact
we are a mere body
so, your turpitude
is my turpitude
in the cosmic unity
of our soul.
