I
All our traumas sat around the table to dine
courteously
and with crooked smiles
(too civilised for their own good).
They exchanged words
superfluous
and untherapeutic.
They drank
until it was late
and memory appeared to dissolve
into nothingness.
II
Sometimes
even after all this time,
when the restaurant is empty
and the music has stopped,
I hear them trying to re-emerge
from the surfaces that surpassed them
the flowers that outlived them
the lights that fooled them –
intoxicated and vindicated by no one –
into the shadows.
I ask myself,
sometimes,
what will happen
if they ever escape the shadows
only to find
that the dining table has since been replaced
and most of their torturous attachments
have ceased to be?
What hidden and unresolved traumas will we have then?
April 2024,
Athens.
Photograph: March 2024, Loutropyrgos.
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