Tabula rasa
17 July 2016
Brutal happenings
Dissolution of a life
Identity swept
Right off the gridlines
Not a temporary stance
A move off the dance
Five six seven eight
The exercise continues
Replacement dons shoes
Four three two and one
Count no more for it is done
The clock ticks onward
Irretrievable
The resolutions taken
In past extensions
Pour me a nightcap
Resolutions lack resolve
When ceilings cave in
Oceans covered din
Thunders of a hundred waves
Sealed the leaking tap
Trains and boats sink fast
The fish venture unabashed
Reverse aquarium
Meek summer nights stall
My quaking communication
A guilt to recall
The water the fall
Can you see what I must see
Blinding waterfall
Disconnected straits
Bridges of desolation
Pathways for the dead
They crawl slow around
Inconsolable white light
The sob heaving chest
The city crushes
The will of bleak emptiness
I yearn for forests
Within the jungle
Only one kind of law rules
No constricted schools
Unmanned the learning
When the forests are burning
All animals flee
When all are equal
In problems solutions lie
The friend in rival
Give me the blind eye
Let me treasure ignorance
That seeps as I sigh
Humanity’s pains
Grit my teeth shatter my bones
Survival in clones
Twirl me a new leaf
Grant me renunciation
Turn me the tables
Tabula rasa
When all is said and undone
Back to the square one
Reading of the poem:
μάνος χατζιδάκις – Ερωτική άσκηση για 2
μάνος Χατζιδάκις Σ’ Αγαπώ αλίκη καγιαλόγλου
Manos Xatzidakis – Gioconda’s Smile
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