Automatic translation from Italian, under review.
“There is a time to embrace
and a time to refrain from embracing” *
Stretch out your arms
to hold close to your heart the one you love,
love is always expressed
in gestures that show
its warm and enfolding presence
to the one who is loved.
But love can never
grow and develop
into ever purer forms
if every trial or restraint
is banished without understanding
the true meaning of all suffering.
True love
knows sorrow and sacrifice,
the enchantment returns,
the time to embrace returns
with renewed love
purified by fidelity.
“There is a time to embrace
and a time to refrain from embracing” *
* Cf. Ecclesiastes 3:2, 5