ANOTHER SUMMER

Composed by D.F.A.T.

I wake up

The warm sun rays of an early june

peek at my eyelashes not yet disclosed.

I left the window open to let them through

and every memory and dream gone along with them.

You are the memory I carry with me,

and the dream of holding you tight was everything I had

You were the blinding sun ray to me.

I remember

We met under a feeble summer light

out there on the shimmering sand of a crowdy beach.

Like a new-born nymph from the water you came out,

with sea drops as glossy pearls on your wet skin

and your hair as waves fluctuating with the wind.

A step, a look, a start, a smile were enough

to realize we’ d found what we longed for so far.

I know

From a destined meet more and more lymph arose

and a moment’ s joy became eternal pleasure.

Our instants together as precious treasures we kept,

enjoying that fleeting flow of a timeless summer.

We spoke of feelings, hopes and dreams shared inside,

and caresses, comforting hugs one another we gave

walking the beach then showered by the sunset sun.

I’ m aware

Our souls began to be indissolubly bond

and born as a sworn friendship it turned to the deepest love.

I was the sea where you could let yourself down,

the mirror reflecting your sweet and yet fragile light.

You were the sun I desired to enrapture,

radiant brilliance that could make my heart warm.

We needed each other to create the perfect harmony.

I learned

To grasp on the fly every transient happiness,

because my lone spirit imploring love and affection

wasn’ t allowed to catch your evanescent splendour.

And as the burning sphere said goodbye to a dying august,

vanishing under the line dividing heaven from sea,

So a day as long as a summer came to end,

making fall over me the most desperate night.

I didn’ t forget

Your last words on the very beach that saw us happy,

and I was there again, unable to talk, unable to stop you.

You curved your back for the tender present of a kiss,

leaving me motionless to watch you fade away.

Our greatest dream broke into small fragments

Only a promise as the last untumbled pillar

you whispered this way: " Next summer I’ ll be here again. "

I recollect

The flowing of time of three infinite seasons

waiting for the summer when I’ d embrace you again.

The hollowness spread within my whole self

that only your voice and your smile could fill.

And every other summer that followed one another

without seeing you, without finding you,

And the tragic dejection for I missed you so much.

I stopped counting

The runs to our beach hoping my eyes to perceive you,

the illusions of discerning your shiny silhouette,

the disillusions for this has never happened anymore.

The tears I shed in the silence of my room

or on the sandy grains your hands used to hold,

punctually washed away by the adjacent sea

along with the emotions building up my lost love.

I shouted

A thousand times your name among the crowds,

and a hundred thousand times in the crepuscular beach,

only to hear echoes of my voice, echoes of my cries.

You were not there to answer my call,

You didn’ t come back and I kept asking why

our promise little by little was crumbling

as a sand castle under the rash of the waves.

Even today I go down to the beach

Covering my usual pathway along the sea shore,

and once again I sit and gaze at the sunset.

But this time a hand helps me get up,

and grabbing such a hand I finally see you beside me.

So before the horizon where sun and sea are embraced,

I cry and hold you to my breast with a neverending hug.

And another summer begins…