REFLECTING

Looking at his worn-out shoes he reflected:

in melancholy is God revealed;

All those clouds that come

and go in our dreams

kindly sprinkling our sleep

are trustworthy messages and rarely deceptive.

Sorrow for the fragility of things

caters for our faith, especially at night,

when people grow weary of their dealings

and remain crouched, expecting nothing.

Translated from the Greek by Yannis Goumas