Eirene Evripidou - (Ειρήνη Ευριπίδου)

“It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge” – Friedrich Nietzsche
I’m making this the epilogue to my next book.

Wanting justice or accountability when your pain comes from, or is worsened by, someone else’s actions is a very understandable response. It reflects a natural desire to restore a sense of fairness after being hurt. What I asked for was accountability, not revenge. The intention is not to make someone else suffer, but to acknowledge that harm was done and to help ensure it does not happen again. In that way, accountability supports fairness and can help protect others from experiencing the same harm.

It is a normal human response to harm. If you cannot see the point, then perhaps that is the problem.

You called it character assassination.
A clinical phrase.
Precise.
Technical.

As if we were characters on a page.

But I know better.
I know who you are.

You thought I wouldn’t notice
the hand that only seemed to reach.
You thought I didn’t hear it—
the quiet edits,
the careful lines delivered
when I wasn’t in the scene.
(But others were.)

And now you stand before me again,
wearing that actor’s smile—
the illusionist,
trying to distract me
with innocent words.

I might have played along.

But trust me—
I know.

And I have no need to diminish you.
Your lies do that well enough on their own.

After all—
it isn’t assassination
if the wound
is the truth.

You think I care what you think of me?

I’m a writer.
I’ve killed you a thousand deaths, a thousand different ways,
each one quieter than the last,
each one buried in the silence between sentences.

You see, every story has its casualties.
Every narrative has its ghosts.
They linger in the margins long after the ink dries.

Stories evolve as they unfold. So do I.
You think you know me
because you’ve read a page,
heard a line,
caught a glimpse of the outline.

But I’m still writing new endings in the dark.

You don’t know me.

Not yet. I am becoming.

You Will No Longer Live in My Head Rent-Free — So Fuck Off

Excerpt from the poem: Notice of Eviction from the book “Loud Enough For The Stars”, get yours on Amazon.com

Every time your name sparked,
with every replay of what you did,
you were storming through me-
and I was locking you in,
punishing myself instead of you.

But not anymore.

You don’t get my thoughts.
You don’t get to live inside me.
You don’t get to be the echo
of what you broke.

Not forgiveness.
Just eviction.
The truth still lives.
The verdict will be delivered-
just not by me.

I let you go.
Your ghosts are not mine to carry.

The millennial girl in me is getting nostalgic.

⋆ ✧˚₊I miss the old static web, when the internet felt more human and connection wasn’t filtered through algorithms curating our reality and shaping what we see, who we meet, and how we connect. Followers weren’t the goal. Creativity was.⋆ ✧˚₊

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You know so little you know about me, and yet somehow you confidently claim to know me. To follow my work. To understand me. To be proud of me. To even dislike me. But how?
What you actually do is collect fragments which mosts times are wildly out of context, irrelevant, or simply inaccurate — and then curate an opinion that is not merely wrong, but painstakingly prejudiced. Almost artisanal in its epistemic negligence.

And not accidentally so. It is methodical. The process is calibrated — not to understand, but to wound. To press precisely where it hurts, so that when anger follows, you can step back and assume the posture of the injured party.

You do not know me.

This is not rhetoric. It is epistemology.

You do not know a person by collecting fragments. You do not know them through hearsay, partial records, or moments stripped of their context. People are not puzzles to be solved by stacking pieces until they resemble something familiar.

Aristotle understood this plainly: knowing facts — even assuming what one has are facts — is not the same as knowing people. Human beings cannot be understood by rules alone; they require judgement, attention, and time.

Later philosophers echoed this insight. The moment you turn a person into something neat and explainable, you have already stopped seeing them. You have replaced encounter with control. People take what little they know and treat it as sufficient; when something does not fit, they call it a defect, a problem to be managed or dismissed. In doing so, they do not meet a person — they construct a version of one that feels manageable.

Understanding is replaced with interpretation, and interpretation with judgement. Incomplete information is treated as enough; contradiction is read as defect; complexity is dismissed as inconvenience.

In contemporary terms, this constitutes a form of epistemic injustice. As Miranda Fricker argues, individuals can be wronged specifically in their capacity as knowers when their credibility is unfairly diminished or when imposed interpretive frameworks erase their lived reality (Epistemic Injustice). In such cases, the failure is not merely cognitive, but moral.

What results is not a person but an object — static, simplified, and safely misunderstood. Ludwig Wittgenstein warned against precisely this temptation when he criticised the urge to explain human meaning by stripping it of lived context, reminding us that understanding is grounded in forms of life, not isolated data (Philosophical Investigations). When context is removed, what remains may look orderly, but it is no longer true.

This is why the error here is not innocent. Why it cuts.

When a knower is aware that their understanding is partial, yet proceeds as though it were complete, the failure ceases to be accidental. In epistemic ethics, knowingly acting on insufficient understanding constitutes negligence. The obligation to inquire increases with recognised uncertainty; it does not vanish because inquiry is inconvenient.

This is not error.
It is negligence.

You will not know a person by what others say about them. You will not fully know them by what is written down. You will not even know them completely by their own words. Words shift. Context shifts. Survival shapes what people say.

If you are going to know a person at all, it happens elsewhere: in what they do when no one is watching; in the choices they make when there is nothing to gain; in the care they show when there is no reward, no audience, and no record.

That is where a person becomes answerable to themselves.

Everything else is easier — and wrong.
It conceals rather than reveals.

The following excerpt comes from the poem Called by Its Name: Violence, part of A Rose Written in Verse:

I am my closest witness.
Not fragments.
Not labels.
Not rumour stitched into a mask.
I am the living record
you never studied,
yet sentenced anyway.

So let every judgement
be built from my whole body of truth,
not from echoes
ricocheting off walls
you trust too easily.

You want to know me?
Ask me.
Not the shadows.
Ask me—
for once.

© Eirene Evripidou

And the final note: If you don’t like what I write, you know where to put your opinions — and how far to push them. No additional guidance will be offered. Thanks!

Read how we “Accepted” the fall.

I’m a girl born under the dawning sky of a grey city. I’m a girl with eyes like an ocean storm – purple and blue and green. A girl with words burning on her lips, longing to be free. Oh, I’m a poet-girl, a dandelion wish, the release of stardust from an indigo sky. Roses, moonlight and staining love.
I’m the girl that fell in love with a boy with dark moon eyes. Love-filled eyes that leave me breathless.
Fragile, oh, never again. Today I am free.
How can love ever be ephemeral?

I kept my silence for too long.
I let them take and take until there was almost nothing left of me.

I let their words sink in—cutting deeper than any blade.
They say sticks and stones, but words?
Words are sharper. Heavier. More dangerous.
They linger. They bruise the soul.

I let the hate, the anger, the fear, the arrogance rise like a tide around me —
I nearly drowned.

But not now.
Not ever again.

You cannot quiet me anymore.
I will not be reshaped by your shadows, your fears, your predispositions.
I will not be bent into something I was never born to be—and never consented to become.

My voice is my own — unyielding.
And it will echo until the end.

“I came back for you. I will always come back for you.”

Darling, for two years I thought believing was enough. Just breathing… And I waited. But I only saw though veils. I did see you but it meant nothing. I think we were just killing time, you and me, and faith is overrated.
I think I can see clearer now, now that the fog of our breath has cleared and I’m not censoring myself just because the world died before (it will die again) (and yes, darling, we’ll survive that too).