…of the clear and lovely waters
when with his pointed beak he seems to shatter
a crystal mirror,
but the melancholy singing of the rooster
in the middle of the night now seems to be
an outcry lost in the middle of the sea.
I feel myself set down on a distant shore
with my grandfather nearby when school was out,
and the song I heard in the distance had the power
even in those early days to wring my heart.
Who told the youthful heart time flies away?
and who told it never
to trust the future?
The galley beating oars against the sea
was hoping soon to see another shore,
but to him who navigates through time
every season is a wave
drawn toward the silence of a lifeless coast.
And I who in the meantime navigate
as the wave shatters,
I call the kingfisher to bring me the time
of the clear and lovely waters
when with his pointed beak he seems to shatter
a crystal mirror.
(Edoardo Firpo)
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