suburban awakening after a rainy night

waking up in the suburbs after a rainy night 

not far from these peripheries, from these paved roads, sodden with rain
there is a fine countryside that is good for the heart
a country of rolling hills and vineyards where once there was the sea 

early in the morning I can breath her in the wind and the mist rising up around me and carrying her perfume that dances and calls me

calls me and tells me that she still has faith in me ,
 she still has faith in us
in us who have built fortresses of cement, plaster boarded prisons, air conditioning skies
almost as we were to protect ourselves human being from harmful elements of an unfriendly place
as if the Earth was a hostile planet without water to drink, 
fruits to eat and air to breathe

and yet everything we need is already here, it has always been here, all around us
within walking distance of this suburban awakening after a rainy night 
not far from these peripheries, from these paved roads, sodden with rain
there still is a fine countryside that is good for the heart
she is all around, she still has faith and calls us now
the day as come
is time to go home

and so be it

Marco Bo

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