04-19-2024, 05:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-30-2024, 10:24 PM by RiverNotch.)
not quite europe but never asia,
perhaps you are a patch of the americas
almost straddling the vosporos, o hellada,
just as my country, west of the pacific,
went nuts for hotdogs and basketball
when she was an infant. when i myself was a child,
i dreamed that through those greeks on the victoria
i was descended from those who had served
dimitra in elefsina
and when i was a teen, i was enamored
by how many of our orthodox fathers spoke
your mellifluous polysyllabic tongue
but now i find that even your today
serves as a sort of icon for our tomorrow:
between juntas and crises and drug wars and dictators,
may our two nations be forever bound
by the venerable sash of the mother of god.
perhaps you are a patch of the americas
almost straddling the vosporos, o hellada,
just as my country, west of the pacific,
went nuts for hotdogs and basketball
when she was an infant. when i myself was a child,
i dreamed that through those greeks on the victoria
i was descended from those who had served
dimitra in elefsina
and when i was a teen, i was enamored
by how many of our orthodox fathers spoke
your mellifluous polysyllabic tongue
but now i find that even your today
serves as a sort of icon for our tomorrow:
between juntas and crises and drug wars and dictators,
may our two nations be forever bound
by the venerable sash of the mother of god.