Red September
[The Mist]
It bled between the slopes of summer slumber, silent in front of the twitching lights, as the ferocious city humming hushes all brave attempts at being still. It climbed the morning and tied itself around a stone spiral flight of stairs. It voiced itself in careless motion and said ‘everything will fall among us, everything we did will sleep’.
[judgemurmurwalksbesidemyshadow]
I forced my way under the rotting bed of freshly-fallen leaves to find a sorrowful sepulcher, a muddy temple with which to dab my gauntly skin and flesh myself with the soil of all my motherlands; I weaken inside them/I accept their shady lie. Wholeheartedly they listen as I begin to narrate this floating element that isn’t my life but simply a series of trivial miscalculations, immigrant dreams disappearing from me at night only to come back again in the middle of the day to reassure me, every time, that I could never count perfect numbers.
Το φθινόπωρο έρπεται το σεξ απάνω μου σαν ένας ήρεμος, απότομος θάνατος στο δέρμα. Και τότε αφήνω το ξεφλουδισμένο μου καβούκι γεμάτο νεκρή αγάπη κι αλλάζω φλοιό. Πρόθυμα σέρνομαι στη λάσπη και τα φύλλα και ξεχνάω αμέσως κι αποφεύγω πλήρως αυτόν τον εφήμερο μου τάφο. Αναπνέει το καινούριο μου κορμί και σα για πρώτη φορά αγγίζει τον αέρα και το χώμα. Κι αυτό το κομμάτι μου που έμεινε πίσω πια τίποτα δε σημαίνει, και μάταια μένει στάσιμο μακρυά μου. Κι έτσι γαλήνια συνεχίζω αόριστα ν'αναζητάω το φαγητό μου, τον ξεκούραστο ύπνο, την ενεργή αυγή, μέχρι να έρθει η επόμενη στιγμή που όλο ζωντάνια πάλι κάτι δικό μου θ'αφήσω να πεθάνει.
σου είπε ένας στ’αυτί:
Of overbearing kindness
It asks nothing of you,
Not even to listen
As it slowly narrates
Its nervous whisper in the shallows.
It’s afraid of staying still
And dives willingly into the bog
gently sighing
Begging for forgiveness.
And if you listen and accept
This bouncing gift, please,
Keep it, take it away with you
for it never truly hoped to come back.
Wandering, it sleeps alone at night,
And has grown fond of loving demons
as strong as mothers.
This song is a song
Of overbearing kindness
It only asks to be briefly sung
One voice perhaps, together
with all its broken brothers.
3 comments:
So nice to have you back. :-)
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[συγγνώμη γιά το άκομψο-άσχετο του σχολίου κι ευχαριστώ γιά την κατανόηση, την φιλοξενία, και την ενδεχόμενη βοήθεια]
Rainman - Thank you, love. It's nice to be back. :)
Monk - No worries at all!
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