prima che il mondo venisse creato

Se faccio le ciglia scure e gli occhi più luminosi e le labbra più rosse,
o chiedo se tutto sia a posto a uno specchio dopo l'altro,
non mostro nessuna vanità: 

sto cercando la faccia che avevo 
prima che il mondo venisse creato.

Che succede se poso lo sguardo 
su un uomo, 
fosse pure il mio amato,
e il mio sangue intanto resta freddo 
ed il mio cuore immoto?

Perché dovrebbe pensare che son crudele oppure che è stato tradito?

Vorrei fargli amare quel che era prima che il mondo venisse creato.

BEFORE THE WORLD WAS MADE.

Una poesia di  Yeats;

una canzone di Van Morrison;

la musica ha senso. Modernità. 
Poesia. Amore. 
Tolleranza. 
Musica.

Ascoltiamo e proviamo a imparare.
Grazie

If I paint the lashes dark

And the eyes more bright

And your lips more scarlet

Ask if it'll all be right

And it's mirror after mirror

No vanities displayed

You're just looking for the face you had

Before the world was made

And if I look upon you now

As though I have my view

With the earth beneath your feet

And heaven up above

Would you think me cruel

After everything's been said

You're only looking for the face you had

Before the world was made

And if I paint the lashes dark

And your eyes more bright

And your lips more scarlet

Ask if it'll all be right

And it's mirror after mirror

No vanities displayed

I'm just looking for the face you had

Before the world was made

Your original face

Before time and space

Your original face

Before time and space

Your original, original face

Before the world was made

If I make the lashes dark 

And the eyes more bright 

And the lips more scarlet, 

Or ask if all be right 

From mirror after mirror, 

No vanity's displayed: 

I'm looking for the face I had 

Before the world was made. 

What if I look upon a man 

As though on my beloved, 

And my blood be cold the while 

And my heart unmoved? 

Why should he think me cruel 

Or that he is betrayed? 

I'd have him love the thing that was 

Before the world was made. 

William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939)

Sir John Ivan ("Van") Morrison (1945)