Alexandros Emmanuelidis / Αλέξανδρος Εμμανουηλίδης

I want to run into your arms like a child
who runs to his mother when she returns from work
or when she takes him from the empty lot.
I want to run after you like a dog seeking a caress.
Like a deep dream that seeks darkness.

I love you, I love you…
I am a beast with no will,
hanging from your two lips.
And a small wave washes me up, wet
Upon your shore as if I was a shell.

I want to leave on you a breath warm and sweaty.
Like the kiss of passion…
To remain on your body…
(translation: Eva Johanos)

I found myself in a dark circle in the dream I had last night
and I was on one side of the circle and on the other
and I was on one side of the circle and on the other
ready to answer myself and to ask again
and afterwards I got lost, far away in orchards full of flowers,
in company with dervishes around the fire, dancing and singing
eyvallah*, dancing and singing, eyvallah, dancing and singing.

And I saw a child, a little child who was playing and beat me at dice
my kiss of later passion, my first childish caresses
and there in that moment I heard the singing inside me,
sleep and death together, songs of my eros,
and later, suddenly, again, I got lost in orchards full of flowers,
in company with dervishes around the fire, dancing and singing
eyvallah, dancing and singing.

And I saw our hopes as shadows, walking silently towards me,
symbols, marks and secret shapes of this vain world
and twenty dark centuries finally reached their end now
and from one world to another, finally, we pass, they say, hour by hour
and later, suddenly, again, I got lost in orchards full of flowers,
in company with dervishes around the fire, dancing and singing
eyvallah, dancing and singing, eyvallah, dancing and singing.

I found myself in a dark circle in the dream I had last night
and I was on one side of the circle and on the other
Tell me what is it that I see here, I managed to ask myself,
don’t speak, just look and pass by, he said and I left my dream.

(translation: Eva Johanos
*eyvallah: expression of ecstatic surrender to God; Arabic)

Nowadays in this world everybody knows
that power to man is the wallet;
in this world power to man nowadays is the wallet~
everybody knows this.

If people find out that you have a wallet in your pocket
they call you a gentleman, the perfect man;
they call you a gentleman, the perfect man
if people find out that you have a wallet in your pocket.

Your friends want you and everybody approaches you,
as soon as they find out that you have a wallet;
as soon as they find out that you have a wallet,
your friends want you and everybody approaches you.

The wallet is really a great benefit:
in every difficult time it makes you a hero;
in every difficult time it makes you a hero:
the wallet is really a great benefit.