Oltre il Cielo
Above the rooftops, an empty armchair waits for the moment we stop watching the clock.
There are evenings when the way home feels longer than usual. Then a door opens, a bag is put down, and above the rooftops the sky suddenly seems close. Woven seats, greenery and a small outdoor sitting area offer a simple invitation: stay here, even just long enough to see what colour the evening has chosen today.
The city goes on beneath us, with its appointments and its lighted windows. From this height it reaches us more softly, like a voice we recognise without having to answer. We can take off our shoes, stretch out our legs, hold something cool in our hands. The thought that has followed us for hours slowly begins to loosen its grip.
We imagine this terrace filled with conversations that pause to look into the distance. With the comfortable silence of two people sitting close. With a chair still empty, ready for whoever comes next. The sky changes while we are here: no one can keep precisely that shade. We can only be present, and feel it pass.