Caldera’s Happiness Poem by Achilleas Katsaros

I saw the happiness
and i only took a few steps behind
to feel this emotion deeply in my soul.
It was she who gave her beauty and brightness
from inside her heart.
She gave her beauty to Unknown Out of Us
with no sense of despair.
The little moon fights against the sun
here in Caldera.
Then i said, yes, happiness has a face,
has also eyes, nose, hair... has body... has mouth and speaks
and says only the good news that you love to hear...
and then blows a little wind in the Aegean Sea and takes the words
to make them treasures of the whole world.
The little wind flies over the rocks here in Caldera
and paints the sunset as a bay of innocence.
It purifies the mind and the same time is a promise of eternity.
That moment is the medicine of sorrow
and the little wind continues his game with your hair...
it becomes the white that blinds you
it becomes the friends who have a passport to your life...



*Caldera's Happiness was published in Volume I, Number II,2014, Poetry magazine, Voices of Hellenism in San Mateo, United States of America.