CHRISTOS DIKBASANIS

 

Endless Life

Deep in the celestial abyss

I have built my new colony

I made her strong, the merciless time to endure

May desires for the future blossom upon her

It is my only possession

which I stole from the Protoplasts

I don't know if my mind can take it

such a wealth of emotions, 

so many fertile destinations, 

so primordial glowing essence of soul, 

the bread and wine of mischievous youth, 

so many vows to my Creator

who may their sacred fire burn eternally within my heart

I hope so anyway 

to gain glittering eagle wings 

just before I took my last breath

To rise to bright horizons of new worlds 

in which I will live my most imperishable dreams, 

gaining an immortal body and an unharmed spirit

from the wandering, beguiling desire

for perishable and perishable things

To become an eternal flower of an endless life

The Little Child

I didn’t make it yesterday

to seize the day by the hair

I woke myself up

little child in pain

from the foolishness of the world

I took it in my arms so it wouldn’t cry

I comforted it

in the twilight of humanity

I covered it with a blanket of dreams

I sang to him about the years of love

who left us

but they will come back with their own hands

full of apologies and hope

for an auspicious tomorrow

I looked at his eyelids

that they were asking to imprison

the Morpheus in his eyes

I let it dream of future ages

without wars, machinations and crosses

CHRISTOS DIKBASANIS

CHRISTOS DIKBASANIS is a poet, writer and scholar of religions. He was born in Thessaloniki in 1961, where he graduated from the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a Master's Degree (MTh) in Religious Studies. His poems and essays have been presented in many literary magazines, print and electronic. Many of his poems have been dramatized by the theatrical groups. Also, Christos Dikbasanis has been included in the “GREAT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MODERN GREEK LITERATURE of HARI PATSI “publications, as well as in the "WHO'S WHO" of journalists. He has participated with his texts in collective works and anthologies. He has been honored with important national and international awards.