(1) Life holds death in
it, while
death holds life in it as well.
In the remotest land of Greece,
when Ptolemaios was pushed out of
the darkness of Erebus to this world
with his clenching fists,
he was instantly wrapped by
the diffused reflection of the refracted light
flooded in the Aegean Sea;
pure, seven colored, dazzling and painful.
He opened his fists.
he aimed at the direction of brilliancy,
which has been at the southeast
far beyond the Aegean Sea, where
the sunbeams were vividly falling
dancing,
fluttering,
bending,
collapsing,
bursting,
breaking,
glittering,
twisting,
stagnating,
scattering.
The light was vividly sparkling.
His fleet sailed towards that brilliant light, finally to
reach the rich
land of Egypt, where he established his dynasty, which
continued
there for 3 centuries, with Cleopatra as the last descendant
magnificently decorating the dynastic collapse.
(2) O Cleopatra, descendant of Erebus,
you will see both light and darkness.
Under the glaring sunbeams,
in the heavy blowing of scheme and maneuver,
the flashes glittered and the soft winds passed
over her voluptuous garden twice;
the first soft breeze from Gnaeus,
the second sweet wind from Caesar.
In the chaos when Caesar returned to Erebus suddenly,
no tears appeared in her face in front of her people.
She was already the acknowledged Queen
of the great Ptolemaios Dynasty.
In memory of Caesar,
she quietly ordered her wisest ministers
to build a strong vessel with
a gold stern,
silver oars,
edges adorned by jewels,
deck covered by mother-of-pearl and
sails of thick scarlet silk.
At night, in Tarsos; where
the troop of Antonius was stationed;
she appeared standing on the gold stern of the vessel,
dressed in with milky yellow.
Lit by numerous fires and fireworks far and near,
with music mysteriously welling up from nowhere,
her figure stood out from the darkness behind.
"You may come over here in front of me"
her voice sounded to him like the one from the heaven
with the clear strange rhythm like a lyre.
When he kneeled and kissed her hand,
his eyes met her eyes.
Sparkle. Flame. Blaze.
In an instant,
their eyes shot fires in the carnal desires.
Plucking the pearl
ring from her finger,
he smashed it in his mouth and
swallowed it with wine of blood red.
poured into a crystal cup.
When they stood side by side, they were shrouded by a
mysterious
shaft of light. It was like a dispersion of the rainbow
fallen on the
ground. The people became intoxicated with the mist of
light.
(3) O Cleopatra, you must be torn to pieces
by the light and darkness.
In Rome, the sky was heavily dark, and the scheming and
maneuvering
were flowing in whirls, deeply embroiling the mainstay of
Alexandria
cunningly. The sea of Actium, where the fleets of
battleships of Rome
and Alexandria were facing each other, was heavy lead.
The orders of Antonius, the greatly capable commander of
naval battle,
did not work at all. Suddenly, the main squadron seceded the
ocean
battle and circled round to the front of the Roman fleet
against
Antonius. -- Jealousy and strategy of Augustus.
The darkish wind from Rome wholly covered the battle ocean.
On the other hand, in the direction of the east,
a huge clear rainbow spanned the sky
between Aegean Sea and Alexandria.
"There is neither
heaven nor hell, Cleopatra,
you are to aim at the direction where the light comes.
You will reach eternity."
from nowhere sounded the voice of
Ptolemaios
and gently shrouded Cleopatra who was on her vessel.
(4) Infinity contains the infinitesimal,
while
the infinitesimal contains infinity. as well.
Antonius, fatally injured, was in the arms of Cleopatra.
They were
shrouded by the misty shafts of light, in which no words
were
necessary. They jointly owned the space in which their
emotions
and logic needing thousands of words for communication
were
mutually transferred at once far exceeding the region of
language.
The misty shaft covered the whole palace. When his
finger weakly
shivered trying to indicate something, a lady's maid
brought the
deep blue liquid in the crystal cup from which he had
once
swallowed the pearl with red wine at their first
meeting. Her grand
mother's voice gently sounded.
"O my beloved
grand daughter, Cleopatra,
it is a secret medicine transmitted by
our Dynasty from the ancient time.
Share and drink it with Antonius.
I saw your presence of this day clearly
when you were born."
The sunbeams fell
brilliantly,
danced,
fluttered,
bent,
collapsed,
burst,
broke,
glittered,
twisted,
stagnated,
scattered.
Thhe light was vividly living.
The two of them became the light itself, and
it diffused into a spiral activity
dissolving in the everlasting movement.