Uncle I've never seen

to my uncle Lt. Renato Del Din

Crunches under my steps
the path's keen gravel
of the brief upland plain
amid the mountains
and astonished echoes resound
within magical rings of silence...

Even there down, where they talk
of honour and death, where evening leads
memories of fights and black scars on hearths
crosses give no more shadows
and time erodes names ..
nobody remember the stone.

Burnt out and was lost your Youth
between smell of powder and blood
that soil greedily swallowed.
Engraved on marble still last
fading words of glory and honour
aside flowers spring out, reminiscence of love

Copyright ©2002
 Lino P. Bertuzzi