Balcony

In the sky, night shows to you it's shining face, radiant and secret.

Lights pass far below in the harbour, and the screech of trains

occasionally reaches you.

The stars seem to swell, then shrink, vanish and be reborn, drawing

evanescent figures, creating new ones moment by moment.

In the silence, the night recovers its density, its flesh.

Filled with twinkling stars, it leaves in your eyes the same play of

light that tears can bring.

In the depths of the sky comes that extreme point where everything

coincides, the secret and tender meditation which constitutes the

solitude of one's life.

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