Michalis Tzouganakis

Sweetly, gently let me kiss you
and afterwards, again, be a wild animal
inside your bosom may I come
improvisation on the same heartache

May I become your little boat
and take you traveling
to peaceful places on earth
and the places of my soul

You should see how I bathe myself in light
in each of your breaths
and how my heart overflows
with each remembrance of you

May I become your little boat
and take you traveling
to peaceful places on earth
and the places of my soul

(translation: Eva Johanos)

Να γίνω το βαρκάκι σου
και να σε ταξιδέψω
σε τόπους ήμερους της γης
και της ψυχής μου τόπους.

…in the ruined nest they come out to sing;
that’s why I am jealous of the birds, and not because they fly…

…I send the birds in pairs, so that if one is lost,
the other will come to tell you how much I am hurting for you…

…whoever in passing finds a bird which has been wounded by another
is shamed as a hunter if he kills it…

when I see a black bird I never do it any harm
for it to wear black clothing, it too must also be feeling pain…

I don’t have the right to love you, they tell me
but they can’t feel these fires that burn me…

again the beating of my heart i feel more strongly
and it seems to me that I will give her new griefs…

there are trees that when the wind blows, touch each other
but for us there has never been a kind of weather to bring us together…

we have become the two sides of the gorge forever
as we can never come together but always look at each other…

….if you were the sky, I would be the moon
and every night, my love, we would be a pair…..

(translation: Eva Johanos)

………αν ήσουνα ο ουρανός θα ήμουνα το φεγγάρι
και κάθε νύχτα αγάπη μου θα ήμασταν ζευγάρι………