THE EARTHQUAKE

Have you ever "heard" an earthquake? When it starts to shake the floor or the chair you are sitting and the desk in front of you, there is a moment of consternation. You look out to search for the cause of all this "topple". When you see the furniture dangling and crockery clink and fall we realize that the earth trembles. The first impulse is to run out! But the regulations require to find a refuge or a safe place at home! Under a table, under a supporting beam, on the stairs. And everything continues to shake. With your heart in your throat and feel completely disoriented you begin to hear the shouts of terror coming from the neighboring houses, from those on the street who see to fall  next the pieces of roof or walls or windows. When you finally get to go out, also to share the panic that has paralyzed us now, we meet the shoes  just leave during the race, men and women dressed in pajamas or underwear have left their homes, children crying in the arms of mothers or relatives who do not shout  because the children shout stronger. And then you look to the sky ... and the sky- line of your  city has changed whole: the dear bell in half, the highest buildings without facades, churches without roofs of millennia! You look inside and you don’t find  your identity!