ANNY BALLARDINI

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WHITE

for Maxine, my niece

November 2, 2014

what do you have to show in your white determination

what for your white sacrifice

white is the air

a white borderline

with white wings flying beyond the night

engulfed in its white light

its enveloping power: white

blood turned into white

white the girl

her head bowed in white submission

weak gentle white gratitude

for a white miracle

white are all your shapes

populating my ethereal white world

white poplars white birches

white the rushing freezing mountain water

white your warm smile

white your dear sight

white your embrace

in this white disease

of white cells eating you

in your white protection from unchained emotions

a white tower isolating your frail youngest self

what do you have to show in your white determination

what for your white sacrifice:

misunderstandings of your white heart

I’d give you white long years

full of white future happenings

white lies for you to live

white diamonds reflected in your dark eyes

my white desperation turned into reddest blood

into purifying white flows

cleansing out your white melancholy

your white surrender

to bring forcefully forth your whitest Self