Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
You were never a woman from my dreams
You become my dream
You are my sleeplessness
You are my sigh
You came from my sleeplessness
When I began to see
You were already here
And it was late
I accepted the game
Always the same
Check – crosscheck
Crosscheck – check
This is a big chess game
I understand that game of time and burden
I sense it by ominous birds
And by steps forward
I know
Everybody has his own stone
Everybody has his own cross
And his own big chess game
That is the wisdom of nature
I didn’t invent that
Who knows whose game it is?
Whose move is it now?
Yours or mine
Or ours
I am for the third
You are always for the first
Where is the end
Nobody is a winner here
Nobody a loser
That will be an unfinished chess game
Maybe a draw
Every day, we could be winners
But in this way
It is easy for me
I can always surrender
But it is not truly in my blood
For this reason, we keep on playing our chess game
Until we collapse
Nobody is a winner
Nobody is a loser
Everything still leads to a draw
©®Ibrahim Honjo
