FIREFLIES

It was that evening with fireflies

as we were waiting for the bus to Velletri

that we saw two old people kissing

under the plane tree. It was then

you said, half to the air

half to me:

whoever love for years

hasn't live in vain

And it was then I caught sight of first

firefly in the darkness, sparkling

with flashesof light around your head.

It was then.