Thursday 2 February 2012

2.2.2012 • λόγια

The result of various urgings, from various friends and foes, to write in Greek.

λόγια

τα λόγια
οι λέξεις
σαν μικρά κουτάκια
περισσότερο τοιχώματα παρά χώρος
και πάντα κλειστά
υπερπλήρη έννοιας και βάθους
δεν έχουν ίχνος κενού
για να χωρέσουν αυτήν την ιστορία
η αληθινή θλίψη δεν έχει θέση σ' αυτά
ίσως γι' αυτό να λέγεται στεναχώρια


words
[a hasty translation of the Greek above; italicized are passages which were significantly changed.]

words,
words,
words...
like little boxes
more walls than space
and always shut
full to bursting with meaning and depth
they have no void
to fit this story in
true sorrow has no place in them
perhaps the void that sorrow brings
to mind and body both
needs another void to fit into

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