20000 - A thousand years ago

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Angeliki Papadopoulou

A thousand years ago
we were already here
in order to write
the necessary history
since the great need
existed
and therefore now
we are again
in the same places
upon the chessboard
in order to help
all the innocent
from barbarity
that doesn’t stop
devouring
every point
of civilization
since we are
Servants
of Humanity
ever since
the olive tree
met
the oak.