Inner Agitation
I sat beside you on a couch
In canted ground-
I sat on its lower side-
On purpose-
Waiting for you to roll over me-
But you were hanging tight on the upper side,
And that pushed me to look up in the sky
And wish the earth was vertical-
(originally written in modern Greek and released in February 2006 from Nocturnal
Publications – translated here by the author)
Copyright © Manos Michaelides | Year Posted 2012
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