A gloomy decade has been dismissed With a last burst of flame, It was Summer time again And it caught us like a wild monkey Piercing our adolescent loin And turning it into a pure light of creation, Just like in the old age of Thyrrenian people The sea is the conclusion of every journey. An Etruscan sea And a journey of mystery, Clear rites of passage In the frescos of Tarquinia. It was just like having seen The fragrant blood Of a world that was still young Circulating Into this crippled and withered era...
Then we would have gratefully put The Heroes’ bundle aside By that time reduced to be a burden of cobblestones. We were not exactly reconciled But a bit more aware and self-respecting: To be stylish is to be free.
We would have been damned in the end Because of our poor intuition, In our endemic carelessness We were unable to recognize The neutral and cruel look That Mother Nature was reserving To the agonies and pains Of every one of her good creatures.
So damned because we weren't able to hear Echoes of caves and gorges And of more spectral essences In the depth of long-lasting lethargies. And how not to find the pungent smell Of the slaughter In that coarse cult of vitality That we're a little proud of, after all?
But in the middle of a station's crossroads August Fire, the servant Was addressing badly the forgetful ones, Saying there's always a stick ready that, Like an Atlantic aphasia, We'll call it “Freedom” (It will be our “Freedom”)