Sono un invisibile

I am a stray, an invisible one
You see me and you walk past
my tears.
You meet me on the street
wet and hungry,
yet you do not see me
because I am invisible.
I am what you did not do,
I am what the institutions do not do,
I am human failure.
I am an invisible stray,
you see me and walk past
despite my tears.
You call me a stray,
but I am not bad,
no…
I would not want to bite you,
I would not want to frighten you.
I am a wandering soul
searching for love
and constant protection,
yet I remain distant.
But I am alive.
I am not human
but I have a heart,
and you crushed it
with your hand.
I am invisible
to you who do not want to see me,
to you who leave me
dying in the street.
For you, Municipality,
I am a plague in the streets.
You let me wander hungry
even though in your name
I am registered.
Italian law allows it.
I belong to the Municipality,
yet I am worth less than nothing.
I am a stray, an invisible one,
and you see me
but you walk past
despite my tears.
I live, or survive,
only thanks to volunteers,
angels on earth.
They are the only ones who help me,
the only ones who love me.
For the rest of the world
I should disappear.
For Northern Italy
I am an embarrassing story,
and for the South
an inconvenient plague.

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