The Great Victory

No banknotes or coins were struck with your name and image. No land was conquered by your soldiers. No blood dripped on the ground by your command. Only shining green leaves grew on canvases at the thought of you. Only the words of poems welled up with your name on the pages. Only, only, forgotten hearts began to beat with your kindness, in forgotten lands; only, only, the landscapes drew away from the thorns. And so it is that you, my love! have built, without ruin, the fortress of the human...