Irini Toumbaki / Ειρήνη Τουμπάκη

You’d told me:” no one could ever
hurt me like you did”.
and after saying good-bye with dry tears
I leave the windows closed all day long.

You’d told me: “I will never let you
live in my dreams like before”.
but here it is! I walk in your sleep
and in your dreams you kiss me again

And I take you in my arms, with eyes closed
How can sadness give birth to happiness in the dark?
Happiness to the one that loves you right now
the dawn is coming, touching your hair

But here it is! I walk in your sleep
and in your dreams you kiss me again
And I take you in my arms, with the eyes closed
How can sadness give birth to happiness in the dark?

You’d told me: “no one could ever
love me like you did…”

You scattered, again you scattered me
in your stronger silence
you touched me, again you pulled me
into the depths of your logic

In a closed circle
you measure the mistake and the right thing
in gray weather
rainy I love you
in a closed circle
guilt feelings play a hidden
game for two, open

You left, and again you left
in my endless moment
you passed, and you passed me by
my autumn breath

(translation: Eva Johanos)