Yannis Ritsos – Poems, Volume I

Then and Now

So long as they had him muzzled, he had so much to say

Now that they had taken the muzzle off, he looked all around

he cannot find any word not even for those things Thus at night

in front of the mirror under dim light, he tries alone

to tie around his mouth a white handkerchief

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