Ti Penso

I think of you as if inside
my silence your warm voice
I think of you as if from the wind
you fell on me without making noise
and as if in the wind
after shedding some tenderness
we both started to fly.
I think of you when evening comes
because the twilight makes me imagine
I lie down, look towards the sky
to search for the roof of your white shoulders
as if that sky could give me
the right reason not to feel bad
as if feeling bad depended on will.
And I think of you, I think of you
even if it no longer makes sense to return to you together
but I think of you, all the same
if only for those eyes you left deep inside me.
I think of you because I don't pretend
like so many do to forget
and I think of you because in my throat
I still taste your laughter
as if by swallowing this smile of yours
I could still be infected
but I find myself laughing alone, now that I think of you.
I think of you even if it no longer makes sense
to return to you together but I think of you,
all the same if only for those eyes
you left deep inside me.
Maybe I steal moments from my life
maybe it's not even right that it's like this
only your face guards the time I lost
but deep down how would I have lived without you.
But I think of you, all the same if only for those eyes
you left deep inside me...