“LOVE THE WORLD”
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What does it mean, “Love the world”?
The world today—his own environment—
Love men, nature, animals?
is more or less a victim of what is happening,
With this poem, I invite you to reflect
with all kinds of disease and very little happiness
on the ambiguity of the love
like good health, honesty, and so on.
man brings to his environment.
Let’s see me personally through this inventory: It has already been twelve years that I am no longer totally free.
Man declares his love only in words, but the reality is different.
Always busy with different appointments, different doctors, different tests— it has become a torturous routine.
You say: Love the world. But you destroy it.
Almost every day I have to face the unpleasant news, often I am angry, with a lot of frustration. Moral help is very rare. It’s very common, the saying, “Help yourself.”
You say: Love men.
The happiness of yesteryear is gone. But you don’t understand them.
In these real moments I am writing my memory. Something comes to mind—that one day
You say: Love the woods (forests). But you destroy them with a blow of the ax.
(I don’t remember when) I saw a magazine on a stand. I looked, I took, I started to read the first page and the last words at the end of the editorial
You say: Love the animals. But you enslave them.
totally changed my feelings—it encouraged me. Since that day, I have not been the same person. I became someone else with a different way of thinking.
If now you still say you love me, I am afraid.
Who am I today? The same person with a different perspective— more courageous, not afraid of anything,
Matteo N. Delgrosso
ready to give the best advice I can, better prepared to deal with society, to face up to my life. I am somebody, still living day to day. Today, I am alive. Who knows about tomorrow? And the words that changed my way of living are, “You are not alone.”
Matteo N. Delgrosso
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