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Poem: Odysseus: Strength and Hope

1/15/2016

Odysseus: Strength and Hope

By Steven Joseph McCrystal
QuailBellMagazine.com

Tie yourself to the mast as the Siren sings.
Overhear her whispers.
Overhear her screams.
A maddening intensity
bereft of any sympathies.
A sweet voice to entice the spirit
with compelling charms.

Echoes from within the mind travel
through these songs:
the sea of doubt,
the end of the world;
until the end.
Colour entwined in a colourless mind
within a sea of doubts.

Waves crashing upon a broken woe
hope tumbles; hope falls.
Into eddies, currents, whirlpools and more.
But the mast doesn’t break.
It bends.
It twists.
It sways to the bitter sweet siren’s song.
Enticing one more look into darkness before she’s gone.

A light!
A thought.
A vanishing point upon unknown horizons.
Beyond the hissing of doubt;
the hissing songs.
Beyond the twisted sense of fear.
Beyond the unknown destination.
Beyond the unknown horizon
it can be found . . .
By navigating Hope:
through rocks;
through woeful songs,
through rough green seas.

Through life it seems.

#Unreal #Poem #Odysseus #TheOdyssey #Sirens #Myth #Greek

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