Hidden...In the Same Space

Mosaic, Castel S.P. Terme, Verona, Italy

From all I've done and all I've said

let them not seek to find who I've been.



An obstacle stood and transformed

my acts and way of my life.


An obstacle stood and stopped me

many a time as I was going to speak.



The surroundings of home, centers, neighorhood

which I see and where I walk; for years and years.



My most unobserved acts,

and my writings the most covered --

thence only they will feel me.



I have created you in joy and in sorrows:

with so many circumstances, with so many things.



But mayhaps it is not worth to spend

this much care and this much effort to know me.


For -- in the more perfect society --

someone else like me created

will certainly appear and freely act.



And you have become all feeling, for me.







Costantine Cavafy