Desires (1904, K.P. Kavafis) Like beautiful bodies that never grow old tearfully sealed in a bright mausoleum, at their heads roses and at their feet jasmine — so look desires that grow cold unfulfilled, forever denied even one night of pleasure, or one of its light-filled mornings. Desires (a reply to Kavafis) As the bright thoughts of the blind from birth blossom ignorant of sunsets, building beauty from the bare accounts of drabness — so dance unfulfilled desires, imagination lending them the weight to balance wistfulness for what they never knew.

"Desires" (1904, K.P. Kavafis) & "Desires" (a reply to Kavafis)

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