Poems by Sotiris Migos.
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The Lantern
She took out her lantern
and walked through the woods
The distance would smother
her dreams and her breath
She walked down the alleys
she walked down the hills
She thought herself naked
in everyone’s eyes
She looked for a flicker
the flame she had sought
She looked through the forests
and ‘cross distant shores
She trod foreign countries
She searched mellow docks
But inside her own home
it seemed she forgot
She bought rings and jewels
some men eyed her well
she got fancy dresses
and new faces met
She lived life of searching
and age came at last
She missed where she started
and thought to come back
She took out her lantern
the same one it was
and walked back to her home
in cobwebs ‘twas clad
The moment she stepped in
she breathed in the dust
Yet even if forlorn
it brightened her heart
She sat with her lantern
and smiled to herself
She wasted years seeking
what she already had.
- Sotiris Migos (20/06/13)
The boat
Onwards we move, we breathe, we seethe
Our dreams, our hopes, all drowned in Lethe
Our arms for oars, our spines for masts
Our feet sit still, in webs and rust
For weeks we sail, for months we starve
We eat the salt, the wood we carve
Our only thought, our only steering
childhood’s crave of pioneering
The ocean’s calm, no sight of land
we, on the boat, hold hand in hand
We travel far, we travel long
We keep ourselves alive with songs
There is no move, we’ve no breath left
Our dreams, our hopes lay down bereft
The ocean’s calm, there is no land
We try to sail some more but can’t
Each other holding, stare in eye
We know now that we’re going to die
Because the land was never there
Just salt and ocean and the air.
- Sotiris Migos (15/06/13)
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