VII - Staring at the water — Summary

Luca FlautoRomantic

What a weird spring! Days of sunlight, days of heavy rain April is a joker among the months, switching seasons through the hail.

Mistral is blowing hard shaking the light dress of trees, the weak blossoms, the fragile leaves. Oh, that wind! Strong enough to break my lips but not enough to heal the pain.

You hold my hand, making me blush, take me to the park where we can sit and stare at the water. The old bench is floating on that wet mirror, sometimes blue, sometimes grey.

Here we are, sorrounded by the sound of Mother Nature looking each other's eyes the desire of jumping in the blue of the lake, it's an hard decision to make.

Water and sky are one thing hugging in the most pure freedom.

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Luca Flauto's poem opens with a shrug at the unpredictable weather: sunshine one day, heavy rain the next, April behaving like a joker. The mistral wind then takes over, shaking the blossoms and leaves and, in a striking line, strong enough to break the speaker's lips but not strong enough to heal their pain. That small admission hints that something hurts beneath the cheerful surface.

The mood shifts when a "you" takes the speaker's hand, making them blush, and leads them to a park. There they sit by a lake, watching the water change from blue to grey, with the old bench reflected on it like a mirror. The two look into each other's eyes and feel the urge to jump into the lake, though choosing is hard. The ending calms everything down: water and sky merge into one, hugging in pure freedom. The poem moves from restless weather and pain toward a quiet, tender sense of closeness and release.

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