325 - The little boy of pain

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Angeliki Papadopoulou, Evi Charitidou

To Dimos Petropoulos

He threw a cast of dice
the doors opened
the dices of sorrow
went away
and hit
a forgotten metal sheet
dated from a painful era.
He cried for the saltiness
of a child’s sea
who experienced the bitterness
of a blue and white homeland
by playing backgammon
with life.