A hermit wandering through an endless universe

A hermit wandering through an endless universe
To new cities and unknown parts of the world
Quietly and peacefully
With no hurry and no haste
So silently, so softly breathing


To get to know it's surroundings
And not to delve into culture
Nor the prevailing manners
To take a superficial look at the new scenery
Like through three-dimensional glasses
Without touching


A hermit in the world and out of the world
And at the crossroads of all worlds
Alone as a god
Without a face and without a name
And with a thousand faces and hundreds of names.
Haunted by his own beauty and youth
He delights the possibility of living and breathing
The air of fresh unknown lands


He made no worlds
Had no courage to become attached
Simply and silently wandered
Without purpose and without a word
In dynamic meditation
Being here and there and somewhere in between
Over and above the universe, everywhere at once
To live not by impressions
but impressed from within.


Standing on the hill of an ancient city
He looked out into the distance
And all around
And saw crowds of onlookers
Those who could proudly call themselves
The followers of a great civilization
But of greatness there was only a genetic connection.
And some tiny external resemblance.
But on the inside.
Filled with gaping emptiness
Wandering without purpose or means
From city to city
From country to country
Straight to the underworld
Struggling for more and more vivid impressions
More and more interesting stories to tell.
Ready to climb on top of each other's heads
And from there take the most important picture
on their smartphones
So that it gets lost in a million of such shots
And falls into the trash
Not into the memory of the heart
But in the cloud of their phone's memory
Stored somewhere with no place to go
In an endless virtual space.

02.09.21
Athens