Alessio Zanelli
poems & pictures
We are all the others.Each of us.All we are or attain in lifeis also due to all the others.Everybody—alone—is nobody.We are the success and the failureof everybody else,we are the joy and the sorrowof everybody else.We are the result—besides of ourselves—of everybody else’s life.In each of us all the others are mirrored.Each of us is the sum of all the others.Each of us—without exception.Without anybodybeing witness to uswe’d be nobody.And we’d be nothing.
First published in Arabesques (Algeria)