Not just a ditty: Goffredo Mameli, 1827-1849
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Not just a ditty - Emanuele Merlino
Emanuele Merlino
Not just a ditty
Goffredo Mameli (1827-1849)
Not just a ditty
Emanuele Merlino
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1st edition – april 2020
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prologue
She smiles at me and says, Come on! Let’s go look at the sea! It’s stormy today!
.
I don’t feel like it, but I answer, Let’s go
. We take a long walk and reach an area full of rocks. She would like to sit on them, watch the sea and maybe hold my hand while I recite a few verses or tell her about my dreams. Dreams in which she hopes to have a place.
She is in love with me. I know it.
I am not.
Perhaps I will be in the future? It would be nice to be happy together. I would truly like to try.
We watch the sea come and go; the waves explode upon the rocks with a sound I love. As powerful as the lives told by poets. It is a spectacle both terrible and beautiful. The noise seems to overwhelm my every thought and prevents us from talking.
Yes, this unbridled, amoral violence is my ally. I only have restraints and do nothing but seek the moral in my dreams. The dreams I then try to live. And it is