13469760.0024.110Absinthe2377-3456Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan LibraryAnn Arbor, MI13469760.0024.110http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.13469760.0024.110Article“Without My Future”(poetry)Ioannou ThomasVallianatosChristina18062018241World Hellenisms2018This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Please contact mpub-help@umich.edu to use this work in a way not covered by the license. I come without my future Poets that I admired Turned their back on me Girls that I loved Feed statues in the squares Desires turned to stone That became public spectacles At night I stay awake Singing dissonant dreams To the beaches where I had lain Under the moonlight I never returned innocent I no longer recognize The voice of my own faith I am not he For whom the rooster calls Every dawn