CHRISTOS DIKBASANIS

 

Throwing The Mask 

Suddenly the immensity of the Universe

imprisoned in my gaze 

Suddenly my consciousness woke up 

I realized who I am 

and pushed my life forward 

on other, upward paths 

I have known so many centuries of meaningless moments 

of my wrong choices 

I learned to be hungry and thirsty 

for something higher than my fleeting breath 

I'm tired of living far away 

from my wildest dreams

I'm tired of suffering away 

of my most unspeakable desires 

Now I want to raise my soul 

in other skies brighter, more illuminated 

The divinity is mine as

the Creator promised us 

but I was lost helplessly in the cracks 

of a complacent, careless, poor life

who had nothing to offer me, 

nothing gilded to give me

I had been sucked in by the darkness of everyday life,

filling my spirit and heart with deep wrinkles 

Now I ask to come out into the light and the hopeful Sun

of my forgotten consciousness,

the mask of hypocrisy to throw away 

from my face 

Fallen angel with clipped wings 

to cover myself with the shield of my supreme truth

My Salvation 

I was prisoner in the box of my Ego for many centuries

I had acquired thoughts like granite,

like caves terrible and dark 

that nested in them

the beasts and monsters of my selfish choices 

They guided my mind and body 

with unrestrained momentum to downhill 

which led to bottomless cliffs

I made people whoop

from my inexhaustible selfishness

The madness of my ego 

he seduced me as

naked nymph scary,

it drew me like a magnet 

in thickets and in darkness

He wanted to join me

and then with pains to throw me into the void

But you came with the Argo of your love 

and you crushed my fragile self, 

slaying the dragons 

that tormented my hapless soul, 

leading me to purification and salvation 

just before i'm lost forever 

in the depths of my private darkness

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 Mondern 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.