4303 - Sadness of the brown colors

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Angeliki Papadopoulou

Why did you put so much brown inside your sadness?
You knew well that no one but your brother
wouldn’t see the vastness of this human sadness.
But you didn’t stop mixing
the materials of oil, the colors of autumn
like you wanted to grab the impossible
for which Carlo talked with such persuasion.