Silvana Dimitrievska: This is Not a Game (for Woman Scream Festival)

This is not a game, yet

the little hands 'playing in the kitchen'

a game called

'How to wash the dishes perfectly,'

to remain only pure words

said in a sign of approval.

This is not a game, yet

the thin fingers 'play through the house',

they place the beds, clean the items,

wipe the windows with hope

that they will see through them

new landscapes filled with spring.

Cold toes draw a heart on the glass,

and then emit a warm sigh,

maybe the room will be filled with life.

This is not a game, yet,

little hands cover their eyes,

they stitch their mouths.

Not to look, not listen, not to speak.

Their game is silent and speechless,

In a world that shouts loudly: freedom and justice.

Silvana Dimitrievska is a graduate philologist and journalist. She writes poetry, prose, haiku, essays, and literary reviews. She has won prestigious national and international awards. For her first poetry book, she won the prestigious National Award for Unpublished Poetry Collection 'Aco Karamanov'. In 2023 she was named one of the laureates of the prestigious World Poetry Award 'Naji Naaman' and acquired the title of honorary member of the Academy of Culture of the same name in LebanonFrom the Academy of Philosophical Arts and Science from Italy, she has won an international academic award for contemporary art Lucius Anaeus Seneca for 2024.