Freedom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

«Freedom»

My child,
we do not fight because prefer the death to slavery,
we fight because we love freedom more than death.
Do not listen what your students books say
for sacrifices in Thermopyles, Maniaki and many others,
for those in Gorgopotamos not even a word
they have other rivers to care about.
The only people who sacrifice themselves my son
are those who do not react to their slaughter.
Only those who are alive, react·
sometimes are honored as heroes
and sometimes
they are simply accused of resisting towards the authorities.

By
E. K. Giannelakis.