If I had to place an adjctive on my recollection of you Wintery, I would say, and you'd surely know the reasons why... Those dark years in black and white freezing on us - The school today, the grave tomorrow. It might have been convenient to lower our eyes, The price of self-respect is so high...
Survivor and veteran is the career That I still don’t fit in; To evoke you is to bleed The same way I used to do at that time, maybe even more so now. Melancholic afternoons that were spent too fast For our discussions, not to mention the rest...
I was raised playing among puddles and building yards, Without your high education. And that incredulous remorse of mine arises just from this: It's just me who was your “Cattivo Maestro” Too many books that were exchanged with inflammatory urgence And then your nickname: Pasionaria
But I'd like to be able to tell you That now I know that there was love... After all, a fossile kind of reserve Still deeply kept on resisting, A shy reserve that can instill Into two bodies with expiry date That Breath Of Eternity Everybody go without today...
You walked until the end of our stormy boulevard With that style of yours, so keen. Maybe only to my indolence I owe my escape From that fate you were doomed to. The wild season, your Summer Of Lead Then, was it so necessary to reach that bottom?
Like bullets in the night May my contempt catch and hit you You, who pulled the strings Just to pontificate and lay down the law now, After having teased us When my generation fret and fumed And for the Reason of State Which makes you say: “ok, one less...”