PHRYGANA

SILENCE DIGITAL VERSION CHRYSSA VELISSARIOU 2014

When her flesh had to freeze

she was nearly fifty

A sudden great and belated love

and the subsequent break and collapsing caused to it 

She was not used to drama

Her life was spent fun and breezy, light- heartedly

This heavy kind of adolescence before her menopause

urged her to her third age with no way-out

She became incurably old now

aiming only to be prepared for her migration to the hereafter

So she pushed away even the remembering of her happy moments 

she dried completely like phrygana beneath the scorching summer sun