Choices

They offer you many things, I a few. Moonlight on the play of fountains at night With water sparkling a drowsy monotone, Bare-shouldered, smiling women and talk And a cross-play of loves and adulteries And a fear of death and a remembering of regrets All this they offer you.

I come with: salt and bread a terrible job of work and tireless war; Come and have now: hunger. danger and hate.