No One Was There
Truly everything took place
the heart keeps beating and distancing itself
it has travelled far away from its home
the world runs to oblivion
getting smaller in the light
understands only the insignificant
incising tattoos to restart for somewhere else.
Once I was lost in the timeless dimensions
and then somewhere between desire and sound
sand under the stars
truth and lies that survive and emerge
I came from emptiness
where I had to
but no one was there
I belong to the other side
whisper of an invisible genocide the ancient wind
takes something from existence
I’ll die yet I’ll be alive
in a hypothetical version of the unachievable
where the nameless
awaits patiently
Manolis Aligizakis 