In Greece we burn (part 2)...

...and we get burned. We count 59 dead people. Where is going to stop all this?

Half of Greece is on fire. When writing the 1st part I could never imagine such a catastrophe. How many more people will go down? How is gong to be the life of people who lost all their belongings? How are we going to carry on?

We spend each day watching TV and calling to our people who face the danger. “Is the fire near to you? Can you see it? Get in the car and go away. But please stay cool.”

I went out and saw our house burnt. I saw my grandpa building it. I saw everyone at the front yard gazing at the valley and listening to nightingales. The seemed so happy. Most of the people I saw are not here anymore. Our house remained intact. But we are not going to hear nightingales again. That’s for sure.

Then you come back. You think of others who suffer. You think of people who got burnt in their cars, in their houses, trying to escape the fire. Can you imagine it even for 10 seconds? Can you realize that you could be in their place?

How can you talk to those people? What to say? Void.

I know life is unfair. Try to live. You won’t have a second chance.

What I don’t know is how to punish people who provoke such a catastrophe. There are many of them. People who didn’t take precautions, people who were ignorant, people who put the fires on. Who should punish them? Would you? What ‘d you do? Destroy their belongings, kill them or kill their children?

What is yet to come? What if we need to leave our houses again? When is going to stop? How many more people are going to die?

The sky turns to black. At night burning mountains look like starry skies and trees like Christmas trees. This view could be beautiful. Pervert?

When you think of tomorrow something happens and you run for your life. When you forget present time you get overwhelmed by what you are going to see tomorrow. This is how time passes by. Back to the TV, back to the phone calls. Back to this burning ring around your neck.

All photos taken from in.gr.