Επιμέλεια: Εύα Πετροπούλου Λιανού
She told me: “I loved you from afar.”
And I replied…
Does distance know how to extinguish the fire of lovers?
Did you not know that passion doesn’t need a touch to be born,
Nor a meeting to grow?
A passing glance, or a whisper from fate,
May ignite a homeland of longing in the heart.
And how could it not—when you were the whole story…
And I, the lover who wrote its ending before it even began?
You loved me from afar…
So I closed my eyes, and my heart smiled.
Do you know how your voice dwells in me without you speaking?
How many times you passed through my thoughts
Without me feeling anything but you?
I loved you like the sea loves the moon,
From afar… but with all the tides and waves in its heart.
You were my breath, even before I knew you!
You were an extra heartbeat in me,
With no cure but you.
Every time you said “I loved you from afar,”
I wished the distances would shatter,
That my hand could reach yours,
And I would whisper: “Come closer…”
For love knows no borders,
And the heart is never satisfied with distance.
I loved you from afar…
And my heart smiled before my lips.
As if it had waited for this confession for ages.
Do you know what it means for someone to love you in silence?
To carry your image in their heart like an unspoken prayer,
To stay up with your shadow as if you were their moon?
You loved me from afar?
You were closer than my breath,
Living between every beat,
And filling every empty space.
You were the warmth when loneliness froze me,
And the music playing inside me
Whenever silence engulfed my world.
I loved you from afar…
But my heart crossed the distances every night,
To land at your window,
To sleep on your voice,
And wake on the dream of meeting.
So… will you come closer now?
For life cannot bear a love postponed,
Nor a passion whispered behind the curtains of distance.
