Part I The New Year would always arrive as an early sunshine, still in the middle of the night. Arrogant, but promising you could hear her steps in advance. That night it was not an object of the universe I saw burning through the sky, it was a part of me separated burned to dust, hopefully to disappear in awe. Of all the wishes, I had none; but faith and arrogance, just like the year coming. But in the middle of the night I remember you confidently whispering to me “we are born to be great”, as if you could see through our future. And perhaps you could. Part II In the quite of the night – windy night for the past couple of days – I recall my ashes since – granules of a new me; thousands of them – travelling with the wind along endless sunshines and endless sunsets a restless journey of the self reluctant to stop, even at the most heaven-alike earth. In those quite nights I remember the rocking of the train or the bus or even the plan...
Poems, short stories and research diaries by Dr. Eleni Kotsira #poeticmovementsblog