The loveletter

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My dear Simone,

After you, red is no longer red, the blue of the sky is no longer blue, the trees are no longer green. After you, I have to search for colors in the yearning I have for us. After you, I miss even the pain that made our love timid and secret. I regret the waiting, the relinquishing, the coded messages, our stolen glances in a world full of blind people who didn't want to see because if they'd seen us we'd have been their shame, their hatred, their cruelty. I regret I haven't yet had the courage to ask your forgiveness. And that is why I can no longer even look inside your window. That is where I always saw you when I didn't even know your name and you dreamed of a better world. A world where a tree was not forbidden to be a tree, or for blue to become the sky. I don't know if this is a better world... now that no one calls me Davide anymore, now that everyone calls me only Mr. Veroli.
How can I say this is a better world?
How can I say that without you?

Thanks for the transcription. That was so beautiful, and still applies to gay lovers in so many situations.