This article first appeared on Illustrati n.41, #PANSPERMIA
That’s how it turned out to be — your mother was bleeding.
The doctors opened the woman’s body, and saved her. You should know that, despite all their cruelty and barbarity, human beings do this as well: they keep each other alive.
Your mother was out of the woods but the doctors wanted to understand why there was so much blood (another human thing, to try and understand). The flesh became a casket and revealed the secret that had been hidden till then, a secret of which the woman herself was not aware: they saw you.
You had struggled to surface, and you had failed.
They called you extrauterine, but you are actually extraterrestrial. From the dark of your mother’s womb you moved to the shining transparency of the liquid that would prevent you from dissolving. Your floating feet have never touched this planet. You have not touched the ground, you have not landed. Our bitter dimension could not damage you.
Out of time — at least out of the time of the human beings — you are floating motionless.
I found an ancient vase, hand-blown more than a century ago by an artisan who lived in a faraway continent, to honour your alien beauty. I gently immersed the minuscule, snow white limbs in the liquid, as if they were holy relics and I was their humble keeper.
Now you are watching from the shelf, suffused with gleam.
I talk to you as if I addressed my own wonder. Only a fool would expect answers from a mystery.
What do you know about the Universe?
Maybe life is precious and rare. Maybe it is more similar to a mould, a moss clinging to every minimal surface, to any rock it can find in the cold of the cosmos.
What dreams have you dreamed?
Maybe for a while you have felt the warmth, the ancient and familiar sensation, because we all know how to be born and how to die. But maybe your incomplete shape did not let you perceive the beginning nor the end.
What do you see when you look out at me from inside there?
Maybe my pain means something to you. Maybe it is only the consequence of my persevering in living.
You who are out of the game, out of the world. You who have known the basics — to take shape and vanish — without your perceptions being clouded by words, thoughts, emotions. You who, of the heart, only knew the ephemeral vertigo.
Tell me. How can we go on, blinded and wounded as we are, fallen into the morass, belonging to the race that burnt the wings in the attempt to reach the sun?
“Do not fight. Slow down the collapses. Relax the muscles. Let yourself be conquered.”
This is what the Moon Baby seems to whisper to me.
“You cannot fall. There is nothing you have to do.”
Grazie per un bellissimo scritto.
Grazie a te Olga.
sei un grande!…
Grazie stefano. 🙂
Lo scrittore scrive in maniera divina. Ho avuto i brividi…
Grazie del complimento, Stefy.
Mi hai commosso…
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Poetico. Davvero poetico.
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Grazie.
A te!
Grazie Ivan, davvero.
A te, Giacomo. 😉
Ti seguo da molto e ho anche acquistato qualche libro della collana Bizzaro (Veglia Eterna ..)non commento pressochè mai ….. ma questo scritto mi ha lasciato di stucco ( in senso positivo), solo Tu potevi rendere con tale garbo un colloquio con un bimbo “in vaso” … trasmette molta pace e dolcezza.
Grazie! Anna
Sono felice che ti sia piaciuto Anna. ?
Pezzone! Davvero mooolto ben scritto!
Grazie Pee Gee, detto da te è un onore!
Tanta, tantissima bellezza e una grande dolcezza.. Grazie.
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Wow! Outstanding!! Grazie…
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Grazie SisKa. 😉
Complimenti Ivan, maestria unica. Grazie
Grazie Andrea.
Bimbo mai nato, bimbo fortunato.
Al mio precedente commento — la citazione di un vecchio proverbio popolare –, vorrei aggiungere un’aforisma di E.M. Cioran:
“Nascita e galera sono sinonimi: vedere la luce, vedere le manette”
Il maestro del cinismo. 😀