Brief Biography of the poet Constantine Cavafy and Everyone Else’s
there is no ship for you, no way out
C. P. Cavafy
anguished and burdened
he saunters the narrow side streets
of the joyless city
that eats his viscera
in which he was born
in which he’ll die
bitterness he drank
and tyrannized him
all alone
sometimes he believed
certainly rarely
that he found joy
once he too wished
to go someplace far away
but he went to the shore
and the ship had departed
Libros Libertad 