A WAR

GREEK ISLANDS DIGITAL VERSION CHRYSSA VELISSARIOU 2014

It is ancient history 

that I crippled my life. 

The point is to get 

power to get better. 

Let's see what I have 

for ammunition in this merciless war 

which  will be the only war 

I will ever bring out. 

It's an innocence that I 

have gathered around me 

from the wilderness, where I wandered, 

a group of easygoing mercenaries . 

I feed them and they smile to me, 

each morning they accept me 

to drive them into the jungle 

of a merciless  chaos. 

It's some gazes that I never understood 

why they praise me. 

They had no qualms to 

urge me to move on. 

They are waiting for me tirelessly 

during my nights of 

wanton without purpose, 

just believing in my greatness. 

There are some voices that I bless. 

Every morning they call me to come back 

from the intricacies of my dreams and 

they have never deprived me of a hello. 

It is also me who perhaps 

loved  in secret and offered to myself 

a view of the actually existing world 

beyond of the common . 

It is also a perpetual bargain in 

my subconscious and disparate emotions, 

which whispers in my ear 

the most beautiful fairy tales. 

I wanted more, 

I wanted to dance without barriers 

on an untamed black horse 

and fly with colorful feathers. 

It seems that my partners are enough for me. 

I do not need magic carpets and reluctant vows. 

I gallop on my own, 

passing forty waves. 

Oh, I love you, I love you, my life, so much that 

I forget who betrayed me, so much that 

death is a bet and the morrow 

a good opportunity for creation. 

Now, now, now I already begin to win, 

I'm thrilled with what it is given to me and 

I look forward to meet , 

what more is going to be given. 

I think, my soul,that the stone walls of Jericho 

are already broken down 

because of our paeans . 

The festival is going to start, O my people!