Cruel World Poem by Sergio Savioli

The video on YouTube and Vimeo has the same short poem in three languages, English, Italian and German. Does it change with each language or is the message the same? Even in one language, despite its simplicity, the poem is a challenge. Is the tone sad and serious or mocking and ironic? Are the images a help or do they confound? Is the reader and listener included or excluded? What is poetry anyway and where does it come from? There's only one way to find some kind of answer to these and other questions...