Athena

I’ll try to translate the words of the poet for you, my dear,
because we know everything important and worth saying
has already been said by someone else, by the greatest poets:
Inside every life there’s always something deeper than itself
- the life of others.
Because people start to exist the moment they find a place in other people’s lives
- these are his words, not mine.
People come together and fall apart
and take nothing from each other.
Because love is the hard way to get to know each other.
You see, life is endless and one can start all over again
- start for the second time every day, every hour, every moment.
and you are full of human destinies
- This is why my name became Second Chance and maybe we get to have more than a second chance.
What if we have a million chances in a lifetime?
- Would you see? Would you dare live?
He says: We usually kill the present with fear or guilt
but even more with dreams and pain is the one that will lift you above yourself
- You talked about stars.
Where’s your faith now?
I had so much to say but now words dry in my throat.
One day all those unspoken words will choke us...
It is the truth, not weariness,
that makes us heavy on our way back home
- but my dear one, there’s my triumph and the ultimate lesson:
Love is our madness when we face
the impossibility of getting to know each other
In 1917, Franz Kafka wrote in The Silence of the Sirens:"Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing never happened, it is still conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never".