Undivided
With his airy smile still reflecting
bygone glorious days
he stood amid the gravestones
and statuettes resembling
our dead comrades lost in battle
or in a hutment drenched in blood.
Suddenly his eyes dived deep into mine
he let a sigh go as silently as
the statuettes and whispered: only
this graceful smile will stay forever
remember this at the hour of reckoning
only this graceful smile remains
all the rest perish, vanish
like the fragrance of hyacinths
in the wind’s blow
like the love you make to a woman
like the sand through a sieve
or the fingers of your hand
yet this moment will last forever
because only the now can’t be divided
for everything else, they have found
pieces, fractions, and elements.
Manolis Aligizakis 