25884 - If you melt

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Angeliki Papadopoulou

If you melt
a statue
in order to see
if the sculptor
had stolen
gold,
then you are
worse
than him,
because you are
barbarian,
since the work
was from the beginning
for Humanity
and you destroyed it
only for reasons
of petty politics
while it was created
by your own,
then you are
more hostile
than the enemy
of fatherland.