Body Remember
Constantine P. Cavafy 1863 (Alexandria) – 1933 (Alexandria)
Body, remember not only how much you were loved
not only the beds you lay on.
but also those desires glowing openly
in eyes that looked at you,
trembling for you in voices-
only some chance obstacle frustrated them.
Now that it's all finally in the past,
it seems almost as if you gave yourself
to those desires too-how they glowed,
remember, in eyes that looked at you,
remember, body, how they trembled for you in those voices.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 437 |
Words | 80 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
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