The City<\/p>\n
You said: \u201cI\u2019ll go to another country, go to another shore,
\nfind another city better than this one.
\nWhatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong
\nand my heart lies buried as though it were something dead.
\nHow long can I let my mind moulder in this place?
\nWherever I turn, wherever I happen to look,
\nI see the black ruins of my life, here,
\nwhere I\u2019ve spent so many years, wasted them, destroyed them totally.\u201d<\/p>\n
You won\u2019t find a new country, won\u2019t find another shore.
\nThis city will always pursue you. You will walk
\nthe same streets, grow old in the same neighborhoods,
\nwill turn gray in these same houses.
\nYou will always end up in this city. Don\u2019t hope for things elsewhere:
\nthere is no ship for you, there is no road.
\nAs you\u2019ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
\nyou\u2019ve destroyed it everywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n
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C.P. Cavafy<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Translated by Edmund Keeley\/Philip Sherrard<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Image\u00a0<\/i>: <\/span>UNICEF<\/span><\/span> | <\/i><\/span><\/span>Syria’s five-year-old conflict has created 2.4 million child refugees, killed many and led to the recruitment of children as fighters, some as young as seven, U.N. children’s fund UNICEF said on Monday. http:\/\/uk.businessinsider.com\/unicef-report-into-syrian-civil-war-2016-3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The City You said: \u201cI\u2019ll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong and my heart lies buried as though it were something dead. 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