30304 - When you’ve

N. Lygeros
Translated from Greek by Athina Kehagias

When you’ve
kissed
the cold
forehead
of the dead
whom
you ached for
for so many years
whatever you may be told
by those
who assume
that they know
due to institutionalized
religion
while their faith
Is void,
doesn’t touch you
because you know
that afterwards
they’ll leave
nothing
because they are unable
to love
Humanity.