FIRST VERSES
I like to read your letter over
and cry
and with my eyes lingering on every line
to see you
still warm, still remembering
when we said
we’d be forever one, remembering
the days
we ran with one another to where nightingales sang
seductively
the day that I remember when you said
I feel
an ache here in my heart
before the cough arrived to stop your words
Manolis Aligizakis 