16734 - From your mouth

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athena Kehagias

From your mouth
to God’s ears
said the Archbishop
when he heard for the first time
about the twenty tesseres
of the endless blue.
So much he was hurting
about the fate of the country
and he was not allowed
due to the misery of others
who continued
to besiege
his heart
without mercy,
only now, he
knew the truth
of the sea.