"I want this boat to move again"

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Camille, a young participant of session 7 between Ravenna and Bari, wrote a poem about her experience. 

 

 

I want this boat to move again
I want to feel the rolling of its waves beneath my feet, its salty wind in my hair
I want to fill myself again with this sea air that resembles me
Free as an olive branch,
directed by this invisible and magnificent force that I hope to call God

These ten days have erased everything
Wiped out to rebuild
Of this new life that I don't know yet
Frightened by the prospect of an unknown future
How could I get back?

I thought it was all written
I hoped to be able to blend into models that were never mine
Could it be the whims of our existence that tend to curb the desires that drive us?
Or just this desire for marine freedom that we must finally accept to live with?

This boat will still move
In everyone's heart
United by their common beats.

 

Camille

 

 

Published on September 16, 2025