Eternal Law

LEFCOTHEA MARIA GOLGAKI comes from Greece. She is a poet, book author, scriptwriter and playwright. Internationally, she has contributed to four poetry collections published by Scars Publications, The Poet, and Adelaide Literary Magazine. Some of her poems and flash fiction stories have been featured in Bright Flash Literary Review, Flash Fiction North, Uppagus, Litbreak Magazine, Aphelion, Eskimo Pie, Mediterranean Poetry, Twist & Twain, Academy of the Heart and Mind, The Sentinel, and Tri-Town Tribune

Eternal Law

My nothingness stretches
between two ends:
the ache of absence,
the numbness of becoming

a line from a poem

recited by the executioner.


I wear my grief,

pass my hand through my hair

and kiss the mouth of wretchedness

before I taste the tart wine

offered by pale angels.


The corrosive blade

cleaves the breezy day

slaying my once-valiant soul. 

A marred version of me

welcomes this transformation.  


Strange it is to see you –
waiting, with no words to say,
your eyes fixed on the wall.

You know I can’t console you.

My chain is too short.