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There is love on street corners

        A lot of time, life surprises us and one of these surprises can be on street corners that someone turns into them without realizing. When someone is far from the real world and is connected with his thoughts and is travelling in the long roadway of the imagination, then street corners surprise people with situations. And when we turn into them and find another look or smile is turning at the same time. It’s like two flowers blooming and meeting in a moment that they do not expect.
      There is love on each street corner, no matter whether it is a love that someone waits for a long time or doesn’t wish to find it. On each street corner can exist a love that can be bought or a love that can be sold. It can exist inside an unknown body, opened to multiple pleasures in the moments of sadness when someone wants to forget it. It can be hidden in a glass of a drink or in a kiss that someone is not sure about. It can be a good conversation and can be experienced in a beautiful mansion or in a small and smelly flat.
       On the street corners, lovers meet and finally, they kiss and exchange hugs. There is love on each street corner ready to happen. It exists when someone covers homeless people with a blanket to protect them against the cold weather. Or it exists in a hot soup for hungry people after a long day without hope. People who are wandering through the streets without a space to live, and find love there.
        There is a street corner for every kind of love. It can be a meeting of people in love or they are waiting for a revolution that is coming soon. It can be in the passion that carries on the crowd screaming for more love in the world as if love, like love that exists on each street corner, could perform the exact moment to show its face. This love is received with stones or violence from authorities.
      There is a street corner inside us where we hide our loves to protect them against surprises. And when we are confident we take it from the darkness and exhibit it on the street under the sunlight like a gift that we gained.
         How many street corners there are in the world and how much love there is. Street corners scare us and threaten us and we look at them carefully to know if we can cross them. Some street corners end up in dark alleys and others end up in illuminated and wide streets. Sometimes we can find a bad guy waiting for a robbery or our loves waiting for opportunities to meet us. Who can steal our hearts in trance on these street corners?
      When love doesn’t find words to say, it is like poorly lit street corners. When love blooms on them it becomes the moon watching us. Street corners bring us surprises of a walker wandering carefully. Street corners are not simply street corners. If someone walks carelessly and doesn’t see around, and ignores them he can’t see love beside him.

Photo from: Foto de Acy Varlan na Unsplash 

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Nilson Lattari

Nilson Lattari é carioca, escritor, graduado em Literatura pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, e com especialização em Estudos Literários pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora. Gosta de escrever, principalmente, crônicas e artigos sobre comportamentos humanos, políticos ou sociais. É detentor de vários prêmios em Literatura

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