C. P. Cavafy.     Remember, Body.

C. P. Cavafy. Remember, Body.

Author: Poetry from the Jungle from The Ceylon Press January 18, 2025 Duration: 1:15

Body, remember not only how much you were loved, 
not only the beds on which you lay, 
but also those desires which for you 
plainly glowed in the eyes, 
and trembled in the voice -- and some 
chance obstacle made them futile. 
Now that all belongs to the past, 
it is almost as if you had yielded 
to those desires too -- remember, 
how they glowed, in the eyes looking at you; 
how they trembled in the voice, for you, remember, body. 


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