<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358776" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On The Stairs</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I was going down those ill-famed stairs<br>you were coming through the door, and for a second<br>I saw your unfamiliar face and you saw mine.<br>Then I hid so you wouldn't see me again,<br>and you hurried past me, hiding your face,<br>and slipped inside the ill-famed house<br>where you couldn't have found pleasure any more than I did.<br>And yet the love you were looking for, I had to give you;<br>the love I was looking for -so your tired, knowing eyes <br>implied<br>you had to give me.<br>Our bodies sensed and sought each other:<br>our blood and skin understood.<br>But we both hid ourselves, flustered.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Constantine+P.+Cavafy">Constantine P. Cavafy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358776" data-title="On The Stairs de Constantine P. Cavafy" data-description="As I was going down those ill-famed stairs you were coming through the door, and for a second I saw your unfamiliar face and you saw mine. Then I hid so you wouldn't see me again, and you hurried past me, hiding your face, and slipped inside the i..."></div> </div> </div>

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