CHRISTOS DIKBASANIS

 

 

Immortal Clown

 

Sometimes in the mirror I don't see my face

Only a strange laugh

is heard from the depths of the mirror

I cut my veins, lest the child

who I have lost sight of for many years

springs from the blood inside

For so many years it hasn't spoken to me, it hasn't touched me,

it only squeezes my mind hard and hurts me,

without me being able to see it

It is an invisible form that likes wild teasing

But I have lost her from my field of vision

Loss of a familiar ethereal creature

who always treated me with mockery

but also with bitterness and compassion

-Real life is hard! she told me,

when I looked her in the eyes

Why do you seek her truth? Nothing is easy

Why do you desire her true face?

There is no consolation in her pain

There is no acceptance for the crazy things you achieve

Only his envy and hatred for you,

why do you struggle to overcome obstacles,

why do you seek to surpass the boundaries of yourself

Why do you seek the current life?

Don't you see that you are a masked clown

who spreads laughter around him

by telling his crazy fantasies with such great success?

 

The Clown's New Clothes

 

I whirl, wounded by memories

in the swarm of unknown disguised ones

with the fervent expectation

of a new, colorful costume

My feet are red-hot

by the fire of unabashed dances

that shake my beautiful state

I will be lost like a shadow among masks,

stirring the piercing sound of my fears

that I never overcame

I know that in the storm of crazy carnivalists

that comes furious

I will be tied hand and foot

I will not be able to start

new, dancing pirouettes

I will be Nobody in the whirlwind

of a hopeless life full of masks

of apathy and indifference

 

CHRISTOS DIKBASANIS

 

CHRISTOS DIKBASANIS is a poet, writer and scholar of religions. He was born in Thessaloniki, where he graduated from the Theological School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He holds a Master's Degree from the Theological School with a specialization in Religious Studies. It has also been included in the "Great Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature" of Haris Patsi publications and in the Who's Who of journalists. He has been honored with many national and international awards for his poems.