I Want You (But You're Gone)

Lyrics of apostrophic address to the missing.

In the Same Space
by C.P. Cavafy

translated by Edmund Keeley

The setting of houses, cafés, the neighborhood
that I’ve seen and walked through years on end:

I created you while I was happy, while I was sad,
with so many incidents, so many details.

And, for me, the whole of you has been transformed into feeling.