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I walk down the colonnade

step by step, 

letting it embrace me,

eroding away my worries and the stress from the outside world

Like a water droplet sliding down the wall next to me

Finding its way into a crack

Smoothening it, 

reshaping it, 

Making space for other beings to grow. 

The erosion opening a stage for imagination

Letting your mind wander

Travel to other worlds, to other times, to other places.

The cracks becoming stages for the performances of the nature

Greenery spreading over the granite, 

flowers daring to look out to the sun from the shadows

creatures making their homes in the space made to be passed.

Like so many humans that we are passing by every day,

Trying not to look

Their homes in the shadows of the public spaces.

I embrace the erosion

Let it take my edges away

Let it make time for change,

Offering space for biodiversity.

I look back at the colonnades in Rome that ones served as spaces to be passed,

now being art that we come from all over the world to see.

The erosion having reshaped them, repurposed them

Let it reshape me,

walking down the colonnade