Dear Dad I'm writing to you...

Dear dad, I am writing to you for all the times you have taught us to live, for those in which you have allowed us to face reality and for those in which you have supported us, leaving us free to learn to fly. You have given us wings and roots, freedom and stability, you have taught us the love for our work giving us the honesty to honor it every day without fear or regret. You have given us the sense of family, the union that sustains us every moment, especially in this tragic situation in which you are no longer there. You taught us gratitude and sacrifice, the joy of the gifts that life offers, the strength to face difficulties, patience, determination.
Your death leaves a deep and unbridgeable pain in us but that same pain is illuminated by the pride of having had you in our life and that sustains us on the path paved by your great teachings.

We dedicate you there few lines in wich there is all the grateness of you being.

Bye Dad...

  Se mi tornassi questa sera accanto
lungo la via dove scende l’ombra
azzurra già che sembra primavera,
per dirti quanto è buio il mondo e come
ai nostri sogni in libertà s’accenda
di speranze di poveri di cielo,
io troverei un pianto da bambino
e gli occhi aperti di sorriso, neri
neri come le rondini del mare.
Mi basterebbe che tu fossi vivo,
un uomo vivo col tuo cuore è un sogno.
Ora alla terra è un’ombra la memoria
della tua voce che diceva ai figli:
“Com’è bella la notte e com’è buona
ad amarci così con l’aria in piena
fin dentro al sonno”. Tu vedevi il mondo
nel novilunio sporgere a quel cielo,
gli uomini incamminati verso l’alba.

Alfonso Gatti "A mio padre"

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