ELLI LAGIOU

 

 

Expectation

 

The sound of life is hope,

when I look into your gaze

the minute stretches endlessly.

 

The sky rains tears,

yet it does not drown injustice

it moves on another way.

 

The clothes of reason

are tight on some,

others walk unclothed.

 

Expectation, like a star,

shines high in the sky,

dressing the darkness in light.

 

In every heartbeat

a promise hides itself

for a brighter tomorrow.

 

A warm flame, expectation

keeps us alive

through every difficulty…

 

With longing in my heart

I dream of a world

full of peace and joy.

 

Far away what I desire,

my window small,

yet I insist on seeing it.

 

I expect…

 

Dripping Memory

 

Pain dresses our deeds

in a coarse skin;

and time — a patient, silent gardener

lets it root.

 

The world, unaware,

still drags its delusion behind it,

like a word of earth

smeared by rain.

 

And the season, rain-drenched,

is a tree

dripping memory

from every wound in its trunk.

 

ELLI LAGIOU

 

ELLI LAGIOU is a regular member of the Panhellenic Union of Writers of Greece (PEL) and of LNPSHA “PEGASI” Albania. She has published the poetry collections ΨΥΧΗΣ ΠΝΟΗ (Breath of the Soul), ΑΠΟΧΡΩΣΕΙΣ ΣΥΝΑΙΣΘΗΜΑΤΩΝ (Shades of Emotions), Η ΣΙΩΠΗ ΤΗΣ ΑΦΑΝΤΗΣ ΑΝΤΟΧΗΣ (The Silence of Unseen Endurance), a bilingual Greek–Albanian edition, and ΦΩΤΟΣ ΣΜΙΛΕΓΜΑΤΑ – ΘΡΟΪΣΜΑ ΨΥΧΙΚΗΣ ΩΡΙΜΑΝΣΗΣ (Light’s Sculptures – A Whisper of Inner Maturity).