Sold
Distant love, o silent mystic!
My petals are just made of rubber
and the sky is rusty blue.
How arrogant your degree has made you
have you lost or never had a sense of youth
the nerve to hold imploring hands?
A man walked naked on the crowded street,
accompanied by a dissonant band
trombones and drums made a blatant sound,
where he was going no one really cared.
Ladies wore upon their chuckling heads
huge wigs of undulating grass
the sinuous bodies graciously they moved,
a vision that was there indeed to end.
My fragile feet are of clay, I am a giant of wet lands,
my days abounds of joy dark and profound
my life’s a carnival of rainbows and moving clouds
unadorned beehives behind the buzzing crowd,
arrays of shops are the backdrop of such stagnant show.
How can you hear me?
This chaotic circus has a deafening sound,
just for few farthings myself I’ve sold
now mad I dance and laugh, all covered with dust
an incantation no one can dispel.
Tell me about the bed you now lay on,
your welcoming crib and lonely songs you sing
these are not the cruel suburbs of Rome,
desperate mothers their addicted sons turned in
and fascists beat you, if didn’t like your clothes.
A great poet was mercilessly lynched
on the same shore he had sang with fervent love.
So cursed we lost the sense of who we are
since then we live without identity,
a spell has made us all insane and dumb.
Certain things man dares to say or do
may cause irreversible dismay.
Are you sure you want to hear a joyous song?
Tell me? Can’t you really hear
the desperate cry of life? When times are dark
that’s when people are awake
and start to really appreciate their lives.
Copyright © Albino Mattioli | Year Posted 2019
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