CHRISTOS DIKBASANIS

You Will Always Live

 

You will always travel

in my gaze, my friend

and even though you have left

centuries ago, from me

I will sink every moment

into the abyss of my loneliness

but it will be your memory that will save me

I will look at you between the shadows and the clouds

of an otherworldly sunset

You will be a magical image

in the daze of my mind

I will balance on the edge of nowhere,

holding tightly to the familiar breath of your absence

In the silence of your friendship

I will extinguish my despair

I will ride the rays of starlight,

clutching in my fist

the intangible knife of your imaginary existence

I will always keep you in my mind, my beloved friend

here at the ends of the Universe that I roam

with the comet- and asteroid-battered

spaceship of my hope

how one day I will see you alive again in front of me

I will always remember you

and the wounds

that opened in my dreams and desires,

when they collided with the masks of sadness

and my fear in the face of your unexpected departure,

will heal.

You will always live in my thoughts,

even if I am millions of light years away from you.

 

Let's Discover The Truth

 

The time has come, my brave friend

to rise from nothing to infinity,

to chart new paths,

to find new routes

among dead stars

and voracious black holes

It is time to resurrect again

our dreams, our desires, our destinies

It is time to ignore the thick darkness

that has frightened us for centuries

With our small steps to pass

over the moving swamps

of hesitations and frustrations,

to escape from our inner demons

that deny our freedom

Strangers and if we are colonists of unknown worlds

we must fight the night within us,

painting our indestructible selves

on the canvas of new departures

with a struggling gaze

but with a heart that is ambitious and courageous

Let God be absent

We will become gods

to overcome the darkness of ignorance

and in the electrified storm

to finally discern the radiance

of Truth and the Unquenchable Light

 

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.