Poem: Borders; Where Has Your Smile Gone; Parenthesis in Reality (Dreams?)

Syndicated from Green Left Weekly on Tue, 2012-06-19

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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/3051">Afrodity Giannakis</a></span></div><p><strong>BORDERS</strong></p>
<p>Rivers don’t interrupt their flow<br />
at national borders.<br />
Mountain ranges don’t answer to their names<br />
in different languages.<br />
The air is not confined within the limits<br />
of national air space.<br />
The waves don’t stay still<br />
to preserve their nationality.<br />
Birds don’t need a passport<br />
to migrate.<br />
Souls don’t carry identity cards<br />
to be certified.</p>
<p>And humans live in their parallel world.<br />
But that’s a different history…</p>
<p><strong>WHERE HAS YOUR SMILE GONE?</strong></p>
<p>Your smile<br />
a mask of despair<br />
from an ancient tragedy.<br />
Your look</p>
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