Kariotakis – Polydouri, The Tragic Love Story

POEM BY MARIA POLYDOURI

ONE DAY I CAME

Guided by your holy love, one day

I came to the glaucous waves

and you let me see the flaming

wound on your youthful heart

and in your calm voice you said to me

this was the endless misery of your life

you felt that I reached deep in your heart

your tears flowed most sweetly

the joy of joys in tears when we sang

to the same tune, a bitter omen

even perhaps forgetting our loneliness

and I ran away to welcome the waves

that I’d sprinkle joy upon your face

with the sea’s most bitter froth.

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