#edith sodergran

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"You searched for a flower and found a fruit. You searched for a spring and found a sea. You searched for a woman and found a soul- you are disappointed."

"Nordic Spring", by Edith Södergran

That the stars are adamant everyone understands— but I won’t give up seeking joy on each blue wave or peace below every gray stone. If happiness never comes, what is a life? A lily withers in the sand and if its nature has failed? The tide                                         washes the beach at night. What is the fly looking for on the spider’s web? What does a dayfly make of its hours? (Two wings creased over a hollow body.) Black will never turn to white— yet the perfume of our struggle lingers as each morning fresh flowers spring up from hell. The day will come when the earth is emptied, the skies collapse and all goes still— when nothing remains but the dayfly                                         folded in a leaf. But no one knows it.

La tua nostalgia è un mare che puoi navigare, la tua nostalgia è un terreno su cui puoi camminare, perché te ne stai allora inerte e scorata fissando il vuoto? Verrà un mattino con un orizzonte più rosso di tutti gli altri, verrà un vento a porgerti la mano: mettiti in cammino!