“Hypnos and Thanatos are brothers: Sofia of Chalepas” (poem)

 

On a freezing white bed

your marvelous form

has fallen asleep

eternally resting

Your light head as feathers,

is carried by your carved pillow,

your fingers are softly holding

at times a rose, at times a lily.

And I must say,

though Geras, son of Death,

your breath back then

was young

as flawless as the body

of a young girl in love

and so is

the Tinian marble you are made of.

 

When the breeze blows,

my leaf drifts to touch your forehead.

I am the plumtree above your tomb

Forevermore,

I shall be your tenor

for whom you once would have given

your very soul. 

Poem by KATERINA PANAGOILIOPOULOU

First Cemetery of Athens : "Sleeping Female Figure" of Giannoulis Chalepas from the tomb of Sofia Afentaki, Photography taken by @soundaffects (Instagram)