Ithaka
Keep Ithaka always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you are destined for.
But do not hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you are old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you have gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.
Ithaka gave you the marvellous journey.
without her you would not have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaka won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you will have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.
[Imagem: autoria, Geno;
Texto: Ithaka, de Constantine Cavafy;
panorama: (no topo do site) "Nuvem". autor, Geno;
música: "Wonderful World", de Nine Horses, retirado do álbum "Snow Borne Sorrow".]
posted by geno @ 12/15/2007
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