"Regina della notte"

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Magnificent goddess. At night, thou sadly look at the Moon and gladden these places, that are blessed by thy breath, with thy dismal smiles. Dressed in opalescent clothes, thy beautiful body ‘s white complexion trembles with desire and seems to be sacred. Thou let every veil fall from thy body, and it, fresh as a leaf that ‘s wet with dew, and innocently dreaming forbidden pleasures and guilty acts, commits a sin, betraying the pure soul it harbour while being wrapped in thy damp hair. Thy heart feels that nothing exists outside of the foliage that hides you from my guilty sight. The entire universe explodes inside thy womb and thy eyes seem to be flaming stars which sing thy praises. // Eternal goddess, how can I keep on living when every kiss of thine was like the fountain of immortality to my heart? Thy red lips were like scarlet petals, thy eyes were like stardust, and every movement of thine seemed to me to be a dance. Thou are the ruler of the slight winds which lift me up. Open thy empire to me, gently, and let the stars embrace my soul!... // I secretly worship you since the day thou left me. Nothing makes me happier than remembering the first “Yes” thou told to me, and my existence has no taste for I am far from thy heart. Crazy with sounds and laments, I lie full length in a nightmare, my love. Oh, my soul, tell me what thou feel! Dazzling lights hurt you, thou yield to visions of ghosts, thou dissolve yourself in terror, bitter hopes and spasms which made you flee the truth pine from pain. I tremble, I write and my work lives on every red drop which I hear flowing along my arms. Let it be! With my defaced face, I am sacred: I am a glorious Christ without God, and, being a simulacrum of shame, blood and spits, I raise you and love no one but you! // The earth ‘s wind and the death ‘s chill pervade my cavern. That dark corner can ‘t be my shelter. Humid mists rise from the pools like opium vapours, while a hallucinated sunset croak mournfully. My soul dissolves into the atmosphere, into a turbid prenatal nothing, into an orgasm ‘s torpor, into the sidereal spaces. Totality and apotheosis collapse under the weight of non-sense and my limbs delight in their pure feeling nothing! // Eternal goddess, how can I keep on living when every kiss of thine was like the fountain of immortality to my heart? Thy red lips were like scarlet petals, thy eyes were like stardust, and every movement of thine seemed to me to be a dance. Thou are the ruler of the slight winds which lift me up. Open thy empire to me, gently, and let the stars embrace my soul!... // And, among my dreams, the most beautiful dream of all is that thou are dreaming the same!... // The last fire has still not died out: I will fight, oh my taciturn! I will dream with a child ‘s ardour: I will love you, my starry sky! Every ideal dies, but, a bloodless god, I will fly! I will kill the surrender with my own breath and will live just for you! // It would be a lie to say: “I want you as I did the first time we kissed”. It would not be the truth to tell you: “I love you as the day in which I saw you for the first time”. At that time, my heart did not throb with love and I was not burned by the flames of passion. Now, if thou weep, I tremble with pain and I am happy when thou smile. // The last fire has still not died out: I will fight, oh my taciturn! I will dream with a child ‘s ardour: I will love you, my starry sky! Every ideal dies, but, a bloodless god, I will fly! I will kill the surrender with my own breath and will live just for you! // The earth ‘s wind and the death ‘s chill pervade my cavern. That dark corner can ‘t be my shelter. Humid mists rise from the pools like opium vapours, while a hallucinated sunset croak mournfully. My soul dissolves into the atmosphere, into a turbid prenatal nothing, into an orgasm ‘s torpor, into the sidereal spaces. Totality and apotheosis collapse under the weight of non-sense and my limbs delight in their pure feeling nothing! // Eternal goddess, how can I keep on living when every kiss of thine was like the fountain of immortality to my heart? Thy red lips were like scarlet petals, thy eyes were like stardust, and every movement of thine seemed to me to be a dance. Thou are the ruler of the slight winds which lift me up. Open thy empire to me, gently, and let the stars embrace my soul!... // Let the stars embrace my soul!...