I pulled the earth
To cover us
Just in case we might wear tonight
Disarming and bloodless
The words we spat out yesterday
Like seeds
But don't answer me hasty
Wait your turn
In line
I'm waiting for answers
From you and from me
Again and again
Up until yesterday
Until reaching the certain and unexpected
-1 of the elevator
Basement indefinitely
And inexorably with anger
(Which logic was rented
From my imagination tonight?)
But I don't want the mud
To ferment our bodies
Filling with minus one tomorrow
Roots of lotus and myths
Tie of public decency
I began to strip off
My clothing
Till I remained naked
In the middle of nowhere
Shouting
In a unknown tongue
(One way or another,
Who would have understood me?)
Yet they didn’t arrest me
For violation of public decency
To stop the shouts
They treated me to absinthe
And dressed me to the hilt
But my shoe-laces
Didn’t coordinate
With their tie
I didn’t leave any change
For a gratuity
I didn’t fall diagonally
Our neighborhood
Is an apartment building now
The elevator stuck
Between penthouse
And sky
And we in it
Squashed in comfortably
Breathless
(And without reception
On our cell phone)
On the verge of an escape
From the “savoir vivre”
Ready for a long time now
For escapades
(When did we actually
Fall in love?)
At the peak
Of suspended steps
In the basement
Of Janus semi-dilemmas
Author's Bionote:
* Dimitris P. Kraniotis is a Greek poet and medical doctor. He studied Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He lives in Larissa (Greece) and works as an internal medicine specialist. He is the author of 12 poetry books in Greece and abroad. He has won international awards for his poetry which has been translated into 40 languages and published in many countries around the World. He has been invited and participated in International Poetry Festivals around the World. He is Doctor of Literature, Academician, President Emeritus of the World Congress of Poets (UPLI), President of 22nd World Congress of Poets (Greece 2011), Founder & President of World Poets Society (WPS), Founder & Director of Mediterranean Poetry Festival (Larissa, Greece), Founder & Editor of the World Poets Magazine, President of the Scientific Committee of the International Poetry Festival of Naoussa (Greece), Representative of PEN Greece in the Writers for Peace Committee of PEN International and member of the "World Poetry Movement" (WPM), "Poets of the Planet" (POP) and "World Organization of Writers" (WOW). His official website: https://www.dimitriskraniotis.com/