Rosanna Ciancia

SWEET MEMORIES

Yesterday you lived here
Small boots kicked in the snow
Unruly hair and a mouth pouting,
Kiss? You asked

As you rushed out of nursery
I pecked your cold cheeks
Colourful drawings still fresh
And pack lunches with banana peelings

Little feet chasing me home
Then Sesame Street came on
We lay in bed entwined
Sweet memories, lost forever?

Your coat hangs in the corridor
Boots sleep amongst the dust
As happy pictures look at me
From the depths of pain

If I could bring back the past
And have you at home
So many things to tell
All waiting to come out

Perhaps I imagined you
In between sweet dreams
Where little feet chased me
Until they ran out of time

My mind sees you sometimes
From despair comes hope
And everything ends as fantasy
You were never born

DWELLER OF DREAMS

I have pictures of you
From the depths of time
Because

I remember
Those moments
Of happiness in space

Frozen in an instant
And kept for eternity
Without a place to

Cry for you
Or anymore tears
To celebrate your life

I’m lost in my mourning
Confused in my feelings
For a dweller of dreams

I REMEMBER

I remember that summer
When it rained for hours
Of ordinary days filled with wonder
As an infant wriggled within me

The newborn
Waited for deliverance
Inside her own primordial juices
Amidst the womb

And I felt full of energy
While the moment of arrival
Got nearer
But the weather remained wet

In that remote era
Lost from memory
At the start of a new life
In the midst of time

Tú no sabes todo lo que yo he sufrido
Dentro de mi alma
Por estar lejos de ti

Yo recuerdo ese tiempo
Cuando quería que los meses volaran
Hacia el día

En que el sol saldría
En una madrugada
Donde la lluvia se iría

Yo te extraño mucho
No me he olvidado
De aquellos días lluviosos

Enredados en tinieblas
Al comienzo del tiempo
Y de una nueva vida

I DREAMED OF YOU

I dreamed of you last night
You had come back home enveloped in fog
I saw your face

Within the shadows
Your voice cut through the silence
I want to stay by your side

Once more
I’ll be with you forever
Not as a ghoul

Inhabiting the darkness
Of your inner mind
Keeping you awake for most of the time

But as a real person
Made of flesh and blood
And not of dreams

Did you ever exist
In this world of tears
Or I dreamed of you

In my life
Full of memories
Of those moments

Fleeing through my mind
Like snapshots
Of the past

I can’t forget
The happy times
When you were a star

In the sky of my thoughts
And in my path
Where you were real

THAT’S WHO I’M

I'm someone
Walking the paths of life
In this minute

Planet earth
Breathing the air of freedom
In a place

Without name
I'm like you
And perhaps

You're like me
Thrust into a world full of stars
All exploding and burning

In a vision of hell
I’m a normal soul
Living a usual life

In an expanding universe
Filled up to the brim
With losers like me

A piece of painted wood
That’s what you are

Loved by millions
On this earth

Your hands and legs
Are painted pink

While your head has
A crown of needles

Made in Japan
With nails imported from China

Another plank of wood
Covers your waist

As tears of holy water
Run down your cheeks