Barbarians have arrived and

have been arriving through the centuries,

always from the East,

and sometimes from the West

across the great ocean,

they arrive, always bearing gifts,

gifts cloaked in primitive wisdom,

gifts of death.

 

And as the empires of the West dine,

devouring the innocent,

throwing scraps to their wild beasts,

and applauding their demagogues whose mouths

smell like death,

Hellenic humanism is left alone once again

to defend the gates of civilization,

from the beasts arriving from the East.

 

Fivos R Drymiotis 10/2/2005