Disappointment

I expected better from my fellow Greek people. And above all, I expected them to show some "logic" (In Greek the word "logic" in this context is synonymous to "sense"). How can you vote again for the people responsible for financial, social and political scandals, people responsible for the deaths of 67 of their countrymen and a unprecedented ecological disaster?

To them I dedicate the following poem of K.P. Kavafis


The City

You said: "I'll go to another country, go to another shore,
find another city better than this one.
Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
and my heart lies buried like something dead.
How long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
Wherever I turn, wherever I look,
I see the black ruins of my life, here,
where I've spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally."

You won't find a new country, won't find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You'll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.
You'll always end up in this city. Don't hope for things elsewhere:
there's no ship for you, there's no road.
Now that you've wasted your life here,
in this small corner, you've destroyed it everywhere in the world.


As for the leaders of opposing parties who failed to do their job properly, I think that the words of King Richard already sound in their minds...

King Richard II:
...For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd: for within the hollow crown
That rounds the mortal temples of a king

(William Shakespeare, King Richard II, Act III, Scene II)