Dry salt; burning my skin.
Dry land ahead of me;
but my mind sees only you.
A body half asleep,
awaiting for you,
travelling miles unconsciously.
I remember all my losses,
metaphorical and literal,
when I am close to you.
And my dreams grow fierce and independent
when I am close to you,
because they involve you.
By name,
I know the face of despair,
but in you I see only light.
The war that united us
by separating souls from their bodies,
is raging.
And you confess to me
that motherland is a wish
now made impossible.
People have been always calling me Eleni,
but the disaster of the war
I only recently apprehended.
As the moon is rising
flammable over abandoned lives,
I recognise what I have in my heart.
And in our essence met
a divine light is waking,
the promise of eternity.
August
2016,
Athens.
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