When you smiled I’d forget of the leaking roof tiles
I’d forget of the holes in the floor
I’d also say, here, big red roses will bloom
through these holes.
Everything was possible in the world, my love
back then when you smiled at me.
Remember that night when we gazed the sky for hours
I felt you trembling in my arms.
“My stars, I said, my good stars make our love so ever bright
make my beloved so ever joyous.
My stars, my good stars, make sure she and I die together.”
Thus, that night
we got married among the stars and forever.
Ah, I’d like to kiss the hands of your father; the knees
of your mother who gave birth to you for me;
I’d like to kiss all the chairs you touched with your dress
as you walked by
to hide in my heart, like a charm, a piece of the bed-sheet
you slept in.
I could even smile
to the man who saw you naked before me
to even smile at him, who was graced with such
happiness.
Because I, my beloved, I owe you something more
than love
I owe you the song and the hope, the tears
and again hope.
In the tiniest moment with you I lived all my life.
You knew how to give yourself, my love.
Manolis Aligizakis 