Written By

Nikos Moschovos

Photo by  Vilius Kukanauskas  from Pixabay

I don’t want to be dragged

Like a lamb to the slaughter.

I don’t want to see

The closed crematoriums at dawn.

I don’t want to think

About how I’ am being killed.

I don’t want anyone

To decide for me.

I don’t want… I don’t want

to be so meanly sociable.

I don’t want

to be trodden upon.

I hate what they want me

to become.

Translation by Evi Papadima-Theodorakis

About the poem

The poem “I don’t want” by Nikos Moschovos is included in the poetry collection entitled “Imaging Dreams – A Poetic Route 1974- 1991” by Nikos Moschovos, which was “circulated” for the first time in 1992 in Thessaloniki ( ISBN 960-2-20- 324-2, Thessaloniki 1992).

This poetry collection was re-released in 2013 as an eBook (PDF) by EPIGRAMIC BOOK PUBLICATIONS, “NMOS-N. Moschovos” (ISBN-13: 978-960-90172-4-4, 80 pages), and was not released as a printed book, but only on the internet.

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