30726 - Torturer

N. Lygeros
Translated from Greek by Athina Kehagias and Theodoros Tsiamitas

A turturer
without knowing it
is what you are
when you forget
that life
is not merely
an existence,
and you let
your own people
die in the oblivion
and the indifference
because
you never wanted
to live
with the risk
of love,
and of friendship
for others,
therefore
your whole existence
was nothing more
than an open
grave.