Neutral
Neutral colour of the page
before the words
inviolable void
uncommitted absence
plan for a dream
unrealized
before your hand
takes the pencil and
draws emptiness
on the whitewash page
like the immaculate skin
of a conflagrated woman
you touch
painting of a mountain peak
adorned by snow
and you say,
before I write a single word
the poem sings eloquently
Manolis Aligizakis 