TO LEONIDAS
( 2,00w x 2,10l x 3,50h )
REFERENCE TO THE ARTWORK
TAP IMAGES TO ZOOM IN
2012
TO LEONIDAS
( 2,00w x 2,10l x 3,50h )
Man of my race farewell!
Archetype and master of ideals
your vigor and your soul
always in front of my eyes
I miss you at the year’s feast
and I refuse your last message
of “here we lie...”
standing, fighting side-by-side
and unplundered
I see you since then till now
Pilgrimage of my memory
what have you passed down to the nations?
Melancholy of comparison
“O tempora! O mores!”
Man of my race farewell!
______
In a poem “To Leonidas”
I leave my soul’s oblation
in insignificant times.
