8782 -
Dead’s love

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Angeliki Papadopoulou

The soldier was dead
but had forgotten
neither his love, nor his life
and after the fatal blow
he rised slowly
and made his first steps
upon the whitewashed snow
in order to leave the traces
of his superhuman effort
since he became a monster
he could endure
the others’ death
in order to help their memory
so he sank
into the country’s memory
in order to rediscover under the arcades
his beloved wild rose.