[Poetry] quote from "Facing Windows" by Ferzan Ozpetek

My dear Simone,

after you, red is no longer red.
the blue of the sky is no longer blue.
the trees are no longer green.
After you, I have to search for colors in the yearning I have for us.
After you, I miss even the pain that made our love timid and secret.

I regret the waiting, the relinquishing, the coded messages, our stolen glances in a world full of blind people who didn't want to see.
Because if they'd seen us, we'd have seen their shame, their hatred, their cruelty.

I regret I haven't yet had the courage to ask your forgiveness.
And that is why I can no longer even look inside your window; that is where I always saw you when i didn't even know your name and your dreamed of a better world.

A world where a tree was not forbidden to be a tree or a blue to become the sky.