Today you won’t awake
one who’s in deep sleep
today you won’t only bring
a new dawn to the world
but you’ll accomplish
something amazing: all
the immortals who have
died, those I buried myself
the immortals who have died
you’ll bring to life with your
music of resurrection.
For this you have brought me
to the cemetery, here to wait
and for this all things around
here are joyous and bloomed
and rejoicing, which I’ve never
seen before around the graves
nor have I seen cypresses
so flexible like now, like
bodies that wish to embrace
and kiss like newlyweds.
And the graves are but tables
waiting to be set with flavourful
foods for crowned revellers
who’ll come and feast until
the new rosy dawn comes.
Manolis Aligizakis 