by Abdelfettah Erbai
This imaginative poem is set during the Italian Civil War (1943-1945). The speaker is a Republican telling his wife that he will be part of a glorious fight for freedom.
People are awakening outside my window
Makes my adulation to sunlight even more
Listening to the people’s march crescendo
I can’t belie my sullen further more
For there are things that I must do
Wish me luck so I can perceive
With my comrades admiring the amorphous blue
At last we “the people” will achieve
Thereupon you see me I may be smilin’
I’ll be in prison or captured on TV
But we will never stop fightin’
It’s fine cause the sunlight dragged me
To lead this glorious fight
Which won’t end until we all unite