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The Talisman

We have a secret pact
that no one can begrudge us
since no one knows about it
or could even understand it
since it is within ourselves,
the secret understanding
of a higher sense of wisdom
in a total alien language
of pure feeling, sensitivity and touch,
that make us far more vulnerable
than most people,
who would judge our extra sensitivity
a 'nervous problem of a schizoid kind',
while it in fact is like a Talisman
more costly than all riches of the earth
and as a love affair and language much profounder
and much higher than all commonplace communication,
and we share it with some dead ones
who are still alive beyond the grave
and much more so than all those normal people
who would never understand
an extrasensory perception
of a language of pure feeling
that belonged to more romantic times
of depth of pathos and compassion
that has never been in use again
since it was buried and forgotten
with the tears of many tragic poets and composers.

Poetry by Christian Lanciai