Night Walk

by Marcello Comitini

At sunset, in the distant horizon
that extinguishes the bright embers
of the sun between the branches,
the dim light of the rare street lamps in the park
weakens a large part of life and forms
of the trees, the statues, the gray river
that accompanies my slow meditation.
From the dark mass of the fronds,
the quivering leaves descend on the riverfront
like clouds driven by the wind.

To what end, I wonder.

Each thing is alone with itself mute
like the stones, the branches, the fountains,
the earth I tread on,
the river that flows beside me.
But they have life and faces?
With the whispers carried on the wind,
we give names faces voice and life
to the things we only touch.
Maybe because we know
they are in our image and likeness
and we believe to be the center.
Looking up to celestial space
we feel that it persists in us
the substance of the stars
and we imagine that we dominate
the chorus of their lights.
Looking within ourselves,
we believe to be
the most fecund part of the universe.

To what end, I repeat to myself,
trampling the dark grass, if we are like the wind
or the river that disperses water in water?

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