Wheelchair
Blond girl on a wheelchair
Eleanor. Motor Neurone her destiny
Purple eyes looking up to the hill terrain
From the shade of her preferred tree
Immobile limbs, travelling dreams
Silent thoughts flowing with the east wind
Up to the peaks scented of amber beams
Pine trees’ branches caressing her forefront rim
Silver rivers from the hill cuddling
Her naked feet into watery whirls
Perfumed petals from sycamores enfolding
A pale and dreaming face of brave dreams
Eleanor. The storyteller, the princess of visions
Impossible to grasp the wind with aching hands
Mind flying to a remote story of Fairy Zinc and Elf Arians
Fiddlers playing with the branches of the Sycamores’ band
Notes dropping as roses on Eleanor’s knees
Now singing to the sparrows her torment
Of inelastic limbs and the joy of her free spirits
Finally galloping on the veil of Fairy Zinc fervent
While Elf Arians was inebriating her senses with spices
Fairy Zinc brought her to a castle of dances and songs and doves
Eleanor’s melody was heard by the trees and sparrows and dragonflies
And by her mother from behind with tearful and silent love
Finally, the last sunbeam, and her flight, higher and higher
Reaching clouds, joining birds, galloping hills, swimming rivers
Walking proudly into woods, mountain peaks, cuckoo birds,
The fairy, and the elf, and the vanishing sun
And then… the deep sleep… her deep sleeps
A pinecone dropping into her basket of crayons
For her friends, a case of drawings and heartily rhymes
Mom pushing the wheelchair of the princess of dreams
“Good night my dear. Sleep well for mom Zinc.
Dad Arians will cuddle your legs and stretch your arms
As the doc said, I have a warm soup for your pain.
Don’t be sad, all your beloved are here”
Eleanor. The princess of dreams
Storyteller, with a basket of poetries and birds
Immobile limbs, mobile spirit and wits
Joy of mom Zinc and dad Arians
Copyright © Carlo Lazzari | Year Posted 2016
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