Message on the cellphone
Although the time it was sent was clear
and the confirmation
the message on the cellphone never came through.
It was the right sender
the right recipient.
But the message you sent me
a single word
I simply never got.
Why this one got lost and not any other,
the one with the pointless goodbye:
‘I’m leaving you before you leave me’ or
all other messages we’ve sent to each other,
due to a mistake of the mirror,
the ones we received back totally
refracted, we’ll never know.
What black crucible devoured the words?
Are they so dirty after all?
And I think of that hairy man
who some years ago
extended his hand and
softly caressed that woman
who met him for the first time
and with that caress
suddenly the world of that era changed.
We’ve never learned of those words.
Manolis Aligizakis 