Lobotomy

“Come on now, all of us gathered here together
let us reveal plans that open up new horizons
and see what we discarded, see what remains
where our ways start and if they lead anywhere.”

And having said this they looked behind me alarmed
and under the light I saw shadows approaching,
thinking that certain people had it in for of us,
I turned round, and what did I see? Persons that looked like us.

Looked so much like us! The only difference was in their expression
as if inside them they were boiling over with anger.
“They had already settled things among themselves,” I ventured.

They usurped visions, theories, from our brains
and made lobotomies of us in each of theirs.
Who are we? Which our ways? Only queries remain…


Μετάφραση Γιάννης Γκούμας