Γενέθλια [Genethlia] [English translation]

On the trails of longing

by the bridge of sighs

my mother gave birth to me

On an autumnal night

Life - my eyes saw your cold heart

With plastic rattles

Pretty and colorful

They lulled me

And my little eyes

Saw the world's goods

and agreed

My milk was bitter

and my water brackish

that I was raised on

And opposite my swing

the destiny, the thuggery of mine

admired me

My cry was hazy

as if there was something I wanted to say

but they didn't feel for me

A despairing breath

for the whore of a life

that they incurred for me

And so I set off then, so I set off

they didn't ask me, life, but I got used to you

Like a wounded eagle in the dirt

I seek the strength to hold up still

And so I set off then, so I set off

but they showed me one thing and I perceived another

God, even if I knew which day I will die on

I'd make my day of death into a birthday

On the sludges and the nails

in the unjust fires of this world I first walked

Steady balance

To make it on time for life

As I stepped

Only "a" and "h"

in my school days

did I first pronounce

That's why this "agh" and this"why"

Follow me wherever I go

Even though I've turned thirty

Thus the time passed

and I, on my road, stooping

Created dreams

I turned out to be one of those

who swim in the foams

and muddy waters

The soul's blood drips

like the drops of rain

but who is bothered?

And the invisible wound

That bleeds within me

- who shares it?

And so I set off then...