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much they are worth but rather for

what they mean.

I would sleep little, dream more. I

know that for each minute that we

close our eyes we lose sixty seconds

of light.

I would walk when the others loiter; I

would awaken when the others sleep.

I would listen when the others speak,

and how I would enjoy a good

chocolate ice cream.

If God would bestow on me a scrap of

life, I would dress simply, I would

throw myself flat under the sun,

exposing not only my body but also

my soul.

My God, if I had a heart, I would

write my hatred on ice and wait for

the sun to come out. With a dream of

Van Gogh I would paint on the stars

a poem by Benedetti, and a song by

Serrat would be my serenade to the

moon.

With my tears I would water the

roses, to feel the pain of their thorns

and the incarnated kiss of their

petals...My God, if I only had a scrap

of life...

I wouldn't let a single day go by

without saying to people I love, that

I love them.

I would convince each woman or man

that they are my favourites and I

would live in love with love.

I would prove to the men how

mistaken they are in thinking that

they no longer fall in love when they

grow old--not knowing that they grow

old when they stop falling in love. To

a child I would give wings, but I

would let him learn how to fly by

himself. To the old I would teach that

death comes not with old age but

with forgetting. I have learned so

much from you men....

I have learned that everybody wants

to live at the top of the mountain

without realizing that true happiness

lies in the way we climb the slope.

I have learned that when a newborn

first squeezes his father's finger in

his tiny fist, he has caught him

forever.

I have learned that a man only has

the right to look down on another

man when it is to help him to stand

up. I have learned so many things

from you, but in the end most of it

will be no use because when they put

me inside that suitcase,

unfortunately I will be dying.

translated by Matthew Taylor and Rosa Arelis

Taylor

July 18 2000

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