lockdown

every day

there’s so much we want

and not get.

things that were never

scarce or costly.

a walk in the park with a friend;

a drink in a bar, enjoying the buzz around

...

examples.

it’s already becoming harder

to come up with examples

as every day,

same as the day before,

makes us smaller.

and in that pathetic, recursive state

of lacking excitement

we scream against the four walls of our room:

“I want out”

“I want people”
“I want you”

“I want life; now that I can still recall it”

and every night we pray

that tomorrow we’ll still care enough

to keep on screaming.

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lockdown by Dimitrios Kokkinos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License 

άχτι

όπου κ αν πάω στη ζωή, 

κ εσύ όποιο δρόμο πάρεις, 

ακόμα κ αν βρισκόμαστε 

σ άλλες γωνιές του κόσμου,

ένα παράπονο μικρό 

θα κρύβεται εντός μου:

που δε θα μάθω πως φιλάς 

εκείνον που γουστάρεις. 

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άχτι by Dimitrios Kokkinos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

do I care enough for a title or punctuation

you know what?

things rarely end with a bang.

most things

end with indifference.

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do I care enough for a title or punctuation by Dimitrios Kokkinos is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License