Alda Merini Portrait Oil on Canvas

I don’t need money.
I need feelings,
words, wisely chosen words,
flowers called thoughts,
roses called presences
dreams that live in the trees,
songs that make the statues dance,
stars that whisper
in the lovers’ ear.
I need poetry,
this magic that burns
the heaviness of the words,
that awakens emotions and creates new colours.

Alda Merini