23522 - Nelson Mandela

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Angeliki Papadopoulou

When you are
human
who managed
to remain
humane
after 27
years in prison
without to become
rhino
because
he had always
in his thought
the Ubuntu
spirit
because it is not
the Nobel
price
that helped him
to endure
the white hell
of Apartheid
in order to bring
the rainbow.