The Complaint (ODYSSEAS ELYTIS)

16 Nov The Complaint (ODYSSEAS ELYTIS)

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Here, half-way along the road

The time has come for me to say

Other things are the ones I love

I set out for something completely different.

Amid the true and the false

I hereby confess

I was like someone else and not me

Acting in life.

No matter how careful you are

No matter how hard you search

It will always be too late

There is no second go at life.

Odysseas Elytis

Source: https://wordscene.wordpress.com/tag/to-parapono/

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