POEM BY GEORGE DOUATZIS
WASTE
Easily we waste
the most valuable:
water, blood
like losses
that build the smallest room
in which I live
and as I grow older
the room turns smaller
until it becomes a small dot
lost in the space
of a mindless world
Neo-Hellene Poets, an Anthology of Modern Greek Poetry, 1750-2018
Manolis Aligizakis 