To Odysseus
My husband
I await your return
My eyes turned toward the sea
My heart searches for your
White sailed ship
Oh Poseidon,
God of the raging seas
Keep my husband safe
On the blue waters
Every day
My heart surges with hope
At the sunlight
At the idea of a new day
With you
I look beside me
Expecting to see your sleeping form
Then I remember
You are at war
Far from me
Across a million seas
Across a thousand plains
My heart sinks
Despair, hopelessness
For you are not here
Not beside me
Your arms not around me
Your voice not whispering in my ear
I long for you
My heart cries out for you
But you cannot listen
For your mind
Is filled with battle cries
Sounds of death
The crazed feeling of war
Of blood and fighting
I keep your memory close by me
But you have put me aside
And instead
Took up your spear
Do you think of me still?
Every night
Do you look at the stars
And remember our nights together?
I miss you
I can't describe how deeply
My feelings are for you
My love for you is
Certain as the sunrise
Wide as the Styx
If only I can say as much
About your return
How can I be sure you remember me
And keep me by your side
Even in the heat of war?
Mind, body, spirit,
I am yours forever
Come back to me
My husband, my beloved