Distant seas

Venus burns
in the cold darkness
of distant space,
in the gleaming dawn
of distant seas,
as the sun swallows her
and light caresses
the Earth again.
We small creatures of carbon,
mechanical chemistry
and nothing more,
lost in this vastness,
have only love
to drive us through the cold,
to lead us through the night.


[al largo di Malta, ottobre 2017]