This is my translation of a poem written by Monica Viola, that I like very much…
Cold
By Monica Viola
The cold the jump the embrace
the cold the jump the embrace and the fatigue
of leaving.
Naked because born;
born because
born.
Born I swim
new, every day,
because I must.
Empty I must leave.
Will you receive me in your embrace
when mine ends
melt in a splash without echo and
without love?
Your mercy: freezing me in that instant
where I remain hanging in my flight;
I reject my beauty
all that’s amiss
all that’s been taken
I reject being empty.
I am not content, so I
fly
away
naked
empty.