Fotografando [English translation]

Photographing this open door on the white sand

And the ships - distant images that go slowly

At this division between the land and the sea

Almost so clean that it resembles a wound...

Photographing a seagull that's walking on your footprints

I see the boundary between your lips and my heart

Almost so distant that touches the horizon...

How I want to cry out loud...

It was you who said that it would be no use

How I want to hate you now

But it would be enough just to have you here

To also give you what I don't have...

Photographing this open door on my questions

And the sentiments - distant images that go slowly

At this division between freedom and pain

Almost so clean that it resembles a wound...

How I want to start again

But time can't be photographed

I want to see you come back

But it would be enough just to have you here

To also give you what I don't have...

Photographing this open door on the white sand...

• Artist:Anna Oxa
• Album:Tutti i brividi del mondo (1989)