There’s always time for you, a heartbreaking poem by Alda Merini taken from Flying Roses, sinks its roots in the intimacy of a beating heart, weaving a song of love and desire.
Merini immerses herself in a world where time calms down and lengthens to welcome the beloved into her heart. The author paints the desired love as the deep kiss of the night, a long mysterious journey that flows between the delights and beauties of the cities.
The poetess evokes vibrant images, revealing a dark flower growing in her hands, a symbol of a miracle, of a fertile land that holds love and life. This metamorphosis transforms her into a vase of sacred earth, capable of offering the essence of the pure morning air, a new and renewed breath of existence.
Through lyrical prose, Alda Merini masterfully captures the sense of time suspended in the embrace of love, a time that stretches and bends to accommodate the grandeur of a feeling. The author embraces the essence of desire and waiting, creating an intimate and poignant poetic space.
“C’è sempre tempo per te” is a hymn to the power of love, to its ability to transform time and space, an invitation to immerse yourself in an eternal embrace that pervades the soul. Alda Merini, with her poetic eloquence, takes us on an emotional journey through the magnificence of love and its eternity.
There’s always time for you
There’s always time for you
in my heart,
for that love of yours alone,
that he wanted so much
the absolute kiss of the night:
a very long mysterious crawl
from desire to desire.
from city to city.
A dark flower
it often grew on me
between the branches of the hands
as if I were a vase of miraculous earth,
and so you breathed
the pure air of the sacred morning of life.
(Alda Merini–Flying Roses) pg.14
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Words and poems by Alda Merini