02 May Grey (C.P. CAVAFY)
While looking at a half-gray opal
I remembered two lovely gray eyes—
it must be twenty years ago I saw them…
………………………………….
We were lovers for a month.
Then he went away to work, I think in Smyrna,
and we never met again.
Those gray eyes will have lost their beauty—if he’s still alive;
that lovely face will have spoiled.
Memory, keep them the way they were.
And, memory, whatever of that love you can bring back,
whatever you can, bring back tonight.
C.P. CAVAFY