Are you my father?



I travelled  among unknown men
In lands beyond the sea
W. Wordsworth



Dedicated to Y.A

Are you my father?
My eyes attracted by you  like an iced forest
Υour human name  been called  by my blood
Breathless/  face  to face /with you
Fall as dead bird /with  slow motion
Against  your blessing  words full of grace

forgive me for  your other name
sing it/ at  all nights /far from you
cluttering your human face
delve into the train tracks
or searching  gracing  lyric lines/ of yours
whether to find and then recite
before we run out of  words
before the night will sleep on my eyelids
and  not say the end is near
let it comes  / will come  /only  with loneliness
my father /  brother/   lover/   son

©Maria Panoutsou