Sunset
To Helena (1963)


Springs off from the pastime
a remembrance of rosiness
fading with the evening
and of a gleaming glance
entangling me
in the wrap of a dream.

Over hairs filled with sky
my fingertips glided, and we felt
that hour estenuating the flesh
burning with fireless fever..
You were then the whole evening
trees all around greener outstretched
than the darkening crystal pool
tenuosly mirroring your overturned image.

Please, shall you ever forgive me
because those promises
that you painfully desired
and I couldn't be able to keep

Lino Bertuzzi
Copyright ©2002 Lino Prospero Bertuzzi