Perhaps the light will prove another tyranny.
The Windows
In these dark rooms where I live out empty days,
I wander round and round
trying to find the windows.
It will be a great relief when a window opens.
But the windows aren’t there to be found –
or at least I can’t find them. And perhaps
it’s better if I don’t find them.
Perhaps the light will prove another tyranny.
Who knows what new things it will expose?
Constantine P. Cavafy (1903)
C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems, Translated by Edmund Keely and Philip Sherrard, Edited by George Savidis,, Chatto &Windus, London 1998
