19920 - Stone Roses

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

The first battle took place in the desert
next to a hidden oasis with stone roses.
The barbarians wanted this water source
because it constituted a link for their lines.
And they had to be the first there
in order to protect it, in the lateral thinking sense.
Because no one could hold a position.
The space was unobstructed with no possibility of defense.
They knew that from the beginning, but they hadn’t stopped
They were committed by dilatation itself.
So they had to come up with an odd solution
to cause the resentment of the barbarians.
In order to arrive in time, they were suddenly transformed
into war horses which did not stop,
but only when they found their valuable aim.
And that was the desert oasis.
For this reason they left at night with the stars over them
without any other asset, as he had told them
what mental scheme of strategy they would’ve followed.
And when they got there, they saw an empty Church
where even the roof support pillars were missing.
There, he told them to take the appropriate formation
because, as stones, they would bring out the war cry,
at the time that the Master would pour the wine
with the protection of Aghios Georgios in the oasis.
So that’s how this node was saved, as barbarism,
when the flask was revealed to it, it fell to its knees
since it had found the limits of its religion.