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LUIGI
PIRANDELLO
From “I
BELIEVE”
If God
wants me to believe that He is
Everywhere,
And that
He watches
over all and, therefore,
On me as
well;
That He
dispenses one justice
Which we
with our measuring stick
Cannot
measure nor understand.
Should I
displease Him?
I will
believe in Him.
(Pirandello, 1960)
Come back,
I pray you, to us, come back, Messiah,
To preach
love;
Come back
with a pure hand
To knock
on undeserving doors again,
Where a
dark people
Dies of
hunger and cold!
Others
wrapped with your red mantle,
With
hatred nurturing your gentle word,
Knock on
the dark houses, and abounds the visage
Of misery.
Fly
Already
the noise of war . . .
Peace you
are, Jesus, you are mercy:
Come back
to restore on earth
Love to
charity.
(Ibid.,
807)
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