The Undelivered Promise Of Potency - Marianna Pliakou

"Between the potency
and the existence,
….
Falls the shadow"

T.S Eliot, "The Hollow Men"
 
It is the look of it that fooled us,
as it shimmered and glowed in the night,
like a peacock on a broken floor.
 
We had not grown into our clothes,
and the bitter fruit we had not tasted,
so we believed the twinkle of the star.
 
But the night was long,
and our tired gaze fell on the ground,
only for a dog to take away.
 
The seed was stale,
and our  words broke to many pieces.
 
And half way,
struggling to carve “existence” onto a tree,
we ended up with “exi..t”.

Marianna Pliakou