320 - The solitude of sacrifice

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Angeliki Papadopoulou, Evi Charitidou

To Elder Leontios

Here
I did not feel the caresses
of my mother,
the hands of my friends
did not touch me,
I did not live in the days
of our memory.
I shed a tear for the missing
caresses
I kissed the entrapped hands
and alone
I stole the occupied
days.