Calypso's Poem

by Raaiku

A homework assignment for my english class, a poem from Calypso to Odysseus with her point of view on that part of the epic.

Calypso

Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide

I want you to be free, but it is

Your sorrow that has made a slave of me

I wish to know how to keep you

You rise like a tide in my oceans

And you shine like the moon over them

But you darken the sky when you leave

Forgive me, but you are all I know

The day is breaking now, the earth is dry and torn

I know you're tired from the violence of the storm

I love you, and you are all I know

The sadness in your eyes has made a slave of me

Without you I seem to lose the power of speech

Without you, I am nothing at all

I feel you slipping slowly from my reach

You grow me like an evergreen

You've never seen the lonely me at all.

Let the wind and ocean water

Wash away a thousand memories,

like sand.