THE BRIDGE (excerpt)
Our humble needs don’t humiliate us;
on the contrary, they save us; they give us ground
to walk on again, to stand erect, to work, and
their knowledge and approval is our brotherhood,
it’s the beginning of our profound freedom,
it’s that sacred truthfulness,
the first and last truthfulness of man, so much so
that you could cry out of tenderness,
for this confession of yours, for this humiliation,
for this pride with which you were born and will die,
for this work that was caused by these needs of yours
that it will be offered to the needs of others,
to the eternal needs of man, an eternal commitment.
Manolis Aligizakis 