Takis Sinopoulos
THE JOURNEY


Now there is a mill in my bowels, it grinds the darkness of
my years and I say nothing of the voices walking in my brain,
nor of the river we crossed the day before yesterday, its waters
flooding memory from all around - while you,

you slept and centuries rolled by as I held you and was
cold and wretched while my hand grew tired and withered -

or suddenly, a spasm in the dregs of the soul,

what did I seek, what did I hold of you?


From Stones (1972)
Translated from the Greek by John Stathatos 


© John Stathatos, 1980
From Takis Sinopoulos: Stones, Oasis Books, London 1980.
Revised 1999 & 2005.

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