Il Castello Evitato

The castle was there...silent as always...
Wrapped in that gray mist that cloaked it...
Unmoved, it waited for millennia...
Tucked away in that valley that stretches from the...
Foggy plains to the sun's massive peak...
But what could that dark, lonely building hide...
Everyone avoided it...even the sunlight seemed...
Reluctant to touch its cold walls...
And the big migratory birds preferred to extend their...
Journey just to avoid landing on the slimy battlements...

But I wasn't a migratory bird...
And I wasn't even sunlight...no...
I was the night...wrapped in a cloak of stars and clouds...
Of wind and darkness...of cold and fear...

The moon was my companion...
As I crossed the foggy plains...
It was she who guided me here...
In front of this lonely fortress...
But deep down, I always knew...
The gray lady who dwells...
In Marillon and then the ancient ice king...
In his crystal palace...up...in the moors...
Even my betrothed told me...
In a time now forgotten...

This is my kingdom...this is my destiny...
Among the silence of the ancient walls before me, I can...
Finally fulfill the task entrusted to me...
The square tower watches me from the heights of the battlements...
Like a sentinel on the ramparts...
Here I won't be misled and my mind won't get lost...
In the labyrinths of flesh...
The mountains surrounding me will keep a good watch...
Home...how strange this word sounds on my lips...
Always on the move...never a pause...
Just like the wind...that caresses everything and grabs nothing...
And now here I am at the end of the run...
Even the wind finds rest here among the damp depths of the earth...
But I can never rest...
Now the true journey begins...
Now the real adventure that will take me...
To discover new destinations...new horizons...
I already see them in the distance...they seem to wait...
Motionless in their absolute transcendence...

Let the gates open...let the drawbridge be lowered...
The lady has finally arrived....

Yes, finally I'm home...

Melancholy fills you already...
Sweet memory of a time that was....
The ancient walls you will inhabit....already live in you....