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Love is a journey to Ithaki
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Love is a magical,
an endless game,
a game of playful hope.
And yet could it bethat as in Kavafi’s Ithaki
it is the journey to love
that counts the very most?
Actually it could count much more
than the very destination itself.
Yes, it all starts with flirting,
exploring each other’s feelings,
testing the unknown waters,
and delving into each other’s hearts.
Yet, then comes
the greatest of pleasures.
Yes! Finding out that your partner
feels exactly the same way.
The satisfaction is inebriating
your heart is full of infinite joy.
Hope is the word
that most overwhelms you.
And it is hope that promises
that there’s a lot more to come…
Love will bring you adoration,
it will bring you worship
It will bring you devotion,
it will bring you exaltation…
Yet you also sense the trust, the belief,
you experience the support,
the admiration, the gentle caring hand.
And, yes, you’re overwhelmed
by the strong compassion,
by the endless sharing, by the mutual respect.
Eros has now struck you with his magic arrow,
and you hope for even more…
your heart is pounding,
your soul is in heaven.
And there is hope, there is always more hope…
It is the flirting and the courtship,
it is the hope for compassion,
it is the hope for ever and ever more love
that is the magical journey to Ithaki.
The journey to the Ithaki of love endlessly goes on
and it is this very journey that counts the very most…