TRAVEL POEM

Traveler

 

 

Theoharris Papadopoulos was born in Piraeus in 1978. He has published nine poetry books and a book of prose. He has participated in international writers’ conferences and his poems have been translated into English, Bulgarian, Spanish, Albanian, Pakistan and Swahili. 

 

When I did military service, I went to the island of Samos in the winter. Every month I traveled back to Athens for a few days. But I always had to return. Samos is very melancholy in winter and it rains every day. Well, when I left Athens for the fifth time, I wrote this poem.

 

Traveler 

 

You are on your way again

 

You say goodbye to the harbor 

 

You view the open sea in silence.

 

Deep away is the shore

 

Two tears pour down your cheeks, 

 

Don’t you see?

 

Destiny makes you like the ship

 

Float always and never ever return.