I would like to know the smell of your country
Walking from home in your garden
Breathing in the air salt and May
The aromas of your sage and rosemary
I wish all the elders would greet me
Talking to me about the weather and the past days
I wish all your friends would talk to me
As if we had always been friends
I would like to meet the stones, the roads, the doors
And the tufts of wall pellitory attached to the walls
The stripes of snails in their shells
Understand all the looks behind the shutters

And I would like it
Because I am not when you are not there
And I remain alone with my thoughts and I

I would like to always travel alone with you
Discover what there is to discover around
To tell you and then let me tell
The meaning of a darkening or your rejoicing
I would like to go back to the places where I have been
Explain to you how everything is then different
And to have you explain to me what has changed
And what new taste the universe has
See Istanbul or Barcelona again
Or the sea of a remote Cuban beach
Or a slope of the Apennines where it resounds
Among the trees a used and simple north wind
And I would like it
Because I am not when you are not there
And I remain alone with my thoughts and I

I would like to stay forever in one place
To listen to the sound of your speech
And watch amazed the throw, the grace, the flight
Implicit in your simple walk
And remain silent at the sound of your voice
Or talk, talk, talk, talk to me
Forgetting the too fast time
Or hide in two foolishness that I am moved
I would like to sing the song of your hands
Play with you an eternal forbidden game
That today remained today without tomorrow
Or tomorrow could tend to infinity

And I would like it
Because I am not when you are not there
And I remain alone with my thoughts and I

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