Repetitions
Repetitions
recurring events deaths
still you don’t dare
shake dust from your clothes
slit a new path for
rain the riverbed yearns for
repetitions of promises or vows
recurring battle victories
still you hold the sword
like an unspoken oracle
assume resolve in its edges
solutions in its skill to
truncate the early spring and
erase the word peace from your life
Manolis Aligizakis 