Pilgrimage
Trembling steps, scared
mesmerized anticipation
sweet wonderment
steps on a pilgrimage
to the holy enclave
where man opened
the gates of heaven for the eyes
of a hungry world
steps one by one upwards
the staircase upholding hope
towards the cosmos of
man, of a Giant
a cosmos which still stands
between the shiver of wheat
and the pain of asphodels.
Thoughts on a pilgrimage
between doubt, fear, anxiety,
sweet wonderment
thoughts one by one upwards
between your constant agony
to achieve the impossible
your passion to fight
for your ethereal world.
My steps upwards toward
the celestial world of
my great ancestor’s
on the same path with
his Cretan glance which
sees through the world
as the sunlight through a crystal
his Cretan glance which
orates to the golden wheat fields
Manolis Aligizakis 