Tomeu Coll

I wonder…

It is always shocking to return to a populated city after having spent some time in the desert that is closest to the stars. Then, while wandering in the narrow streets surrounded by little lights, in a city that usually dives beneath the calm waters of a persistent sea, appeared this man and his intense gaze, lost, waiting for who knows what. Perhaps to see the light again… maybe a few coins and nothing more…  Every day he sat on the same corner, probably counting the steps to get from home to the place where he spent hours barely talking, barely noticing the thousand souls around him who were walking incessantly from one side to the other without scarcely looking at the sky, even for a second… Then, only then, I wondered if he had ever seen the stars.