Yannis Ritsos – Poems, Volume III

13

Honesty

With stubbornness, desire, need

since you’re alive and we too

we today

others tomorrow.

Don’t lie

since we’re alive.

And the tree at the railings

the leaf, the cup, the paper knife

the handshake

the dream

the poem.

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