Awareness

Italian

When you're alive you are always so busy with "things".
You run and you think about running.
Life accompanies you and gives in to you.
And you feel that it should only be this way.

When you become ill, things immediately lose their meaning.
You stop running and you think.
Live seems less of a friend and less of a "given".
And you feel that it should not be like this.

A precise moment arrives,
In which you feel suspended over a divide.
On one side you live and on the other side you do not.
Life against death.

In that dark and silent moment you ask yourself many questions.
And if I go? What will remain of me?
What sign have I left of my passage?
What life have I lived? Have I been just?

When you begin to move towards healing, you hear the noises of life restarting.
Muscles and bones begin to awaken.
Eyes discover a new horizon.
And hope warms your heart.

You take a few steps beyond the abyss.
Your legs hold up well now.
You look back at your past and at your mistakes.
Ahead there is your future, on a new road.

You no longer have doubts, and continue.
But, you are no longer alone.
You have a new companion,
Called Awareness.

Life after death is different.
It is an aware life,
Wiser and more thoughtful.
Not necessarily easier.