Emptiness

"Today I was up to Grignetta, I know its towers intimately. Today I went to Grignetta, encountered people I know and unknown faces, in the shade the rock was cold, in the sun the holds were warm, but for a while, a short and too long while, I always encounter "emptiness". The telephone no longer rings. All those strange, crazy, twisted and fantastic ideas have stopped. Just like a computer I cannot connect. I'd like to, but I can't.

I climb and consume an endless amount of metres, alone and with others, but something has changed and I can't figure it out... There's a degree of emptiness in the people I meet, in what they say at the base of the towers, in the friends I know and those I'd like to get to know. An emptiness in the air... The dreams haven't faded away, they've simply lost their color, and I think it's Your fault, because you've turned out the twinkle in your wonderful eyes, because you turned out the light in our eyes...

It would be easy to say "I miss you", yes, because it's a simple set phrase, decisive and easy to say, but it isn't true, no! Why, I don't miss you... WE MISS YOU!

Today I was in Grignetta, so many people, so many scents and smells, children, mothers and fathers, climbers and quiet walkers, sweat and toil ... autumn anticipating winter, a magical and powerful season... spiers, towers and steeples and an emptiness inside... Marco, how many dreams we once had... "

by Ivo Ferrari

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