"A BOTTLE OF WINE
An empty bottle of wine
you are for me, my life:
You have no meaning.
With insatiable greed
I have drunk you down, drop by drop,
you have gone straight down,
towards the heart of the black abyss.
Greedy, I drank you.
Greedy, I savored you
while velvety you descended
to appease the ardor of an indomitable spirit.
Greedy, I quenched my thirst like a madman
in the vermilion sea in which you conceal drowned dreams,
to better bear the weight
of a Heaven that tastes of Eternity,
on my shoulders bent in the cold winter;
I advance on tired legs
striving in the mud that assails me around.
A full bottle of wine
you are for me, my life:
you only make sense if I drink you."

Riccardo Pulcini

Poet • Italy • Contemporary

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