ΝΟΣΤΑΛΓΙΑ
Μεσ᾿ ἀπὸ τὸ βάθος τῶν καλῶν καιρῶν
οἱ ἀγάπες μας πικρὰ μᾶς χαιρετᾶνε.
Δὲν ἀγαπᾷς καὶ δὲ θυμᾶσαι, λές.
κι ἂν φούσκωσαν τὰ στήθη κι ἂν δακρύζεις
ποὺ δὲν μπορεῖς νὰ κλάψεις ὅπως πρῶτα,
δὲν ἀγαπᾷς καὶ δὲν θυμᾶσαι, ἂς κλαῖς.
Ξάφνου θὰ ἰδεῖς δυὸ μάτια γαλανὰ
— πόσος καιρός! — τὰ χάιδεψες μιὰ νύχτα·
καὶ σὰ ν᾿ ἀκοῦς ἐντός σου νὰ σαλεύει
μιὰ συφορὰ παλιὰ καὶ νὰ ξυπνᾷ.
Θὰ στήσουνε μακάβριο τὸ χορὸ
οἱ θύμησες στὰ περασμένα γύρω·
καὶ θ᾿ ἀνθίσει στὸ βλέφαρο σὰν τότε
καὶ θὰ πέσει τὸ δάκρυ σου πικρό.
Τὰ μάτια ποὺ κρεμοῦν — ἥλιοι χλωμοί —
τὸ φῶς στὸ χιόνι της καρδιὰ καὶ λιώνει,
οἱ ἀγάπες ποὺ σαλεύουν πεθαμένες
οἱ πρῶτοι ξανὰ ποὺ ἄναψαν καημοί…
NOSTALGIA
From the depths of the good times
our loves wave to us bitterly
You don’t love and you don’t remember, you say
and if your heart ached and if you cried
that you can’t cry as before
you don’t love, you don’t remember, you may cry
suddenly you’ll see two blue eyes
you caressed one night long ago
and you feel inside you a calamity stirring
inside you: an old calamity that re-emerges.
Memories will start their macabre
dance going about the past
and like back then a bitter tear
will appear flowing from your eyes
the eyes that like pale suns reflect
onto your heart their light which melts snow
loves that although dead still stir
the first concerns that have reignited
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Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former Finance Minister and Sir Simon Robertson, former Chairman of Rolls Royce are both joining King’s as distinguished Visiting Professors within the Department of Political Economy. Starting from 1 August they will both give public lectures , departmental seminars and student facing workshops as part of their activity at King’s.
