Goodbye Greece #Poem & #Painting by Nikos Laios

The dead
Traditions of
An ancient world
Weigh heavily,
They weigh us down
Like heavy ballast
Stones and we sink
Drowning under the
Suffocating deadweight
Of a static monoculture
That has failed to move
Forward in time,
In history.

Modern Greece,
Like a sailing ship
Dead in the water
Has failed to catch
The winds of change,
Having failed to live up
To the halcyon days
Of its ancient glory,
And we cling in
Fear to its past,
The last two
Thousand
Years a
Decline.

I look back one last time,
One last look at the past;
At the archaic meaningless rituals,
At the suffocating monoculture,
At the patriarchy and misogyny,
At the pressure to conform,
At the hypocrisy and betrayals,
And I swim to the shore of
A cosmopolitan world,
A citizen of a lyrical
Brand new world.

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With a digital painting from Nikos Laios

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