Οι εξισώσεις, October 2012, The equations

The stars of the sea

She went towards the edge,

she looked over here, she searched over there,

she saw all the names on the boats

and the waves in people,

she looked up in the sky and these did not lit up

She flew towards the cliff,

she palpated all that she found over here and

and all that she discovered over there,

she touched all the meanings and the thorns

and the steps in the marsh

Only when she was ready to go

she saw their bright reflections

and she realized which ones were her own

real stars