European Pagan Memory Day

We are here to remember.

We are here to honour.

We are here to found.

 

The fire estinguished on sacred altars

after the fire that nourished the myth has been estinguished

and the emotions abandoned humans.

 

Everything became shape, everything became word

The illusion conquered people's feelings.

Their ears became deaf

humans became barbarians and animals became strangers

 

Tagete and Numa, Orpheus and Homer became undistinguished shadows

while infernal terrors killed human feelings.

 

We are here to relight the fire,

We are here to get out of the horrors

We are here to breathe new life in the shadows that have been

 

We are here to listen again to Orpheus' song

We are here to remember.

We are here to hear again the Gods' weapons under Troy's walls

We are here to honour.

We are here to relight Numa's and Tagete's fires

We are here to found.

 

Claudio Simeoni