Ricordo - Marlene Kuntz

«Vale pi l’eternit che raggiunger

O i secondi che da lei mi separano?»

Te lo sarai chiesto, amico angelo

Sul parapetto poco prima di buttarti gi

Ed io ti vedo risucchiato dalla crudelt

Di un’ossessione che biancheggia

Sulla tua faccia:

Cammini ipnotizzando verso l’azzurrit

E verso il ponte che si staglia

E che troneggia

Forse ti chiedi se vero che non credi

Forse rivedi te stesso fino a ieri

Dal giorno in cui sei nato

In ci che stato e non stato

Un giorno la tua voce mi chiam

Per dirmi: «Ti ricordi di Updike?

L’ho preso ed magnifico»

E mentre mi dicevi cos

Pensavo che tu, prima, mai

Avevi telefonato a me…

l’ultimo ricordo che ho di te

E so che non lo perder

Ora ti vedo rasente la rete del ponte

Gettare un’occhiata al fiume

E alle sue sponde

Il conto si rovescia

E ingolli quel che resta dell’angoscia

Un giorno la tua voce…

"Eternity is worth more than it will reach

Or the seconds that separate me from her? "

You must have asked yourself, angel friend

On the parapet just before you throw yourself down

And I see you sucked into cruelty

Of a whitening obsession

On your face:

You walk hypnotizing towards the azure

And towards the bridge that stands out

And that dominates

Perhaps you wonder if it is true that you do not believe

Maybe you see yourself up until yesterday

From the day you were born

In what was and what was not

One day your voice called me

To tell me, “Do you remember Updike?

I took it and it was magnificent "

And while you were telling me so

I thought you, before, never

You phoned me ...

the last memory I have of you

And I know I won't lose it

Now I see you skimming the net of the bridge

Take a look at the river

And to its banks

The countdown is over

And swallow what remains of the anguish

One day your voice ...