2018.12.20.
Pictures
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Sweet pictures of the past
surround me as the holy days come close.
So many things to hear and to feel,
so many past lives to live in just one moment,
I feel like watching an old movie.
Crazy sights of the present
enclose me on days of mourning.
I don't know where to start from,
let alone where to end.
The experience of today are a tornado
in which I'm getting lost, with my mind and my soul.
Risky situations of the future
pave my way for the pure or for the corrupt.
Many are the challenges awaiting for me,
as well as the surprises that I'll unravel
and there lies an interest unknown for me to discover.
Here am I and there lies the divine waiting for me.
My life is pictures,
as well as anything I haven't ever or yet seen.
Pictures brightful and dark,
pictures bizarre and normal.
One picture is worth one thousand words,
and yet, from so many pictures
I have composed my entire life !
Οι μεταφράσεις μου μέχρι ένα εφικτό σημείο είναι δικές μου. Δέχομαι βελτιώσεις μόνο αν θεωρώ ότι κάποια μετάφρασή μου έχει παράδοθεί ελλιπής ή εντελώς εσφαλμένη.
My translations are mine up to a considerable extent. I accept improvements only if I consider that any translation of mine has been delivered inaccurate or completely wrong.
2018.04.03.
Advice
Oh, grand and petit world !
Tonight, I acquiesce you to listen to me,
as I'll be plonging down to your breath.
I speak as an unheard and insolent voice
that didn't break free from the rule of the dominant silence.
I sing the silence of the lambs as a new chant
to you for never listening to yours own silence.
I ring the bells of temples with abundant force,
hoping that you'll hear me requesting a helping hand from you.
I pray, just like the worshippers,
that you'll close your ears to the void voices of the past.
You won't live a bright future
if you insist to pressure its children
to learn the traumatic past the way
you were taught it by those who fought against you.
Oh, grand and petit world !
Learn from your mistakes
and embrace your destiny,
instead of fighting them both.
As a new teacher, I incite you to learn
and to denounce the greyness of life.
As a father of the many, I want you
to listen to your children and to give them their future.
As a beloved and tested grandparent,
I admonish you to reject fear
and to open your doors to happiness.
As your deeply beloved and well-promising child,
I need you to support me, as well as all the starving children.
As your alter ego, before passing away,
I beg you to shift over right now.
Drown your egoism
and burn your indifference down.
Push your anger aside
and seal your hatred away.
This is the advice I'm giving you
and I hope that you'll take me into account.
Because, in mine time of dying,
no one will hear me !
Οι μεταφράσεις μου μέχρι ένα εφικτό σημείο είναι δικές μου. Δέχομαι βελτιώσεις μόνο αν θεωρώ ότι κάποια μετάφρασή μου έχει παράδοθεί ελλιπής ή εντελώς εσφαλμένη.
My translations are mine up to a considerable extent. I accept improvements only if I consider that any translation of mine has been delivered inaccurate or completely wrong.