Cathedrals
are almost empty.
God left by the western door
leaving only occasional old women
to kneel, if they can, to share the vaulted space
with gothic ghosts, dimly lit by windows
stained with the memorial red and blue
for sons lost in battle, saints in doctrinal wars.
The
emptiness has spread in recent days.
New York’s wide streets and avenues are cold,
despite the summer sun. The people have gone,
fleeing before a virus
that if it catches them, seizes their lungs
and eats the bleeding tissue – stupidly,
as it will die with its host.
There
are bluebirds over
the white cliffs of Dover
because the trucks and planes have stopped.
The earth is doing fine.
What will emerge after we are lost?
A new creature, sentient –
just as capable of guilt?
I wonder.
“On a day when we celebrate trust in a life that succeeds,
I am proud and happy to accept the invitation of the City and the Duomo of
Milan,” said the artist, who has acted without an audience, in compliance with
regulations. from the government on COVID-19.
“I believe in the strength to pray together. I believe in
Christian Easter, the universal symbol of rebirth that everyone, believers or
not, really needs right now.
“Thanks to the music, broadcast live, and bringing millions
of hands together throughout the world, we will embrace the beating heart of
this wounded Earth, a wonderful international union that is a source of pride
for the Italian people. The city of Milan, which is generous, courageous and
proactive, as well as the whole of Italy, will once again be very soon a
winning model, engine of a rebirth that we all hope for. It will be a pleasure
to witness it, in the Duomo, during the Easter celebration that evokes the
mystery of birth and rebirth.”
Andrea Bocelli – Easter 2020, Milan.
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