9397 - Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Evi Charitidou

Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Nietzsche wrote silently
without, of course, saying
how much strength is needed
to afford life
and injustice.
Only if you look at
a genocide’s survivor
you realize the whole essence
of the philosopher’s phrase;
because it’s then when you touch
the limits of humanity
beyond death.