Prelude For A Love Poem by Niko Tiliopoulos

The veils of the night
covered my sundries eyes
and I felt my nose running
from the allergy of the spring
and if it hadn’t been for the stench
of the urine, the alcohol, and the sweat
my thoughts would have stayed with her.

I believe I saw her
in the clouds,
or perhaps she was hiding
between the trees
whispering to the wind:

‘Discover me…
Explore me…
Conquer me…’

I am not sure,
cause I was mesmerised
by the moon
playing her sonnets.

All around me offered music
to her name,
while my heart and my stomach
were keeping the beat,
and a sweet,
almost familiar pain
gave me the shivers.

The night was dancing
with me...
with her...
hypnotised, lost,
as I was singing:

‘This time
I will follow
my fate…’