August 13 – Ineke

While the August sky provides a shower of stars

And has even dropped a star from the Movies

Your star is rising towards that same sky

In the middle of the zodiac

If the Olympic Gods still reigned

This crying world

I'm sure they would create a sign

For your star in the sky

Taking care of and saving animals

Over so many years

With intense love and endless patience

Was more than impressive

And even as your breath began to fail

Your ears and heart kept open to the tales

Of the animals and their problems

As well as about friends and other people

Your heart was so big

Too big for yourself

Too big for Agia Paraskevi

And maybe even too big for the island

Goodbye Ineke, we will miss you...

(Ineke Peeters-Lenglet, director of the Lesbian Wildlife Hospital, died on August 12 2014 due to a lung disease)