Ithaca, what troubles you? This land that Ulysses safeguards, what beauties do you hold?

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crevasse, every cliff face marked and plotted on maps somewhere in the palace. What more does he
tend to give? In other words, what hasnt Ulysses given to his kingdom? Troy. That place of fiends.
Countless soldiers slain at his hand, his battles passed through tongues as far as the wind can blow
but he cares not for this. His name is his legacy for a young Telemachus, unknowing of his fathers
whereabouts at this particular point in time. Ogygia, held here by the temptress Calypso. No, that is
all in the distance, for the bounds of the ocean horizon jail him here to spend his days with a lover of
a name, although is this love. Adrift for nine days, Calypso saves him from being taken by the waves.
She is still a prisoner. Kept here by the Gods for loving her father over them. She defied them She
is rather The love for Penelope resides within Love such a foreign concept to a man lost at sea.
The touch of a woman, the scent, the lascivious nature of men withheld from the outside world to
be left to discipline and will is it all for nothing? Ulysses love does not go to Circe. That was more a
female passion crusade after Ulysses is impossible to obtain. This time there are no walls or magic
trickery involved, just vast amounts of ocean to separate him from his home. But home is where you
make it. Calypso does not trap him on the island. Calypso attempts only out of love. Divinity flows
through her yet she does not act like a divine. Flaxen hair falls from her head complimenting the
structure of her face. Of divine aesthetic she may be, but her heart is that of a mortal woman. Her
desires arent of a sexual nature. There is not a lust for the raging phallus of man and his lewdness.
She craves the fundamental to humanity. The one item that separates man from the heavens. Her
passions reside in love. But it is the fundamental that keeps Ulysses from her constant attempts on
him. It is love that drives him to seek home. Calypso merely grants solace for a man left to die above
the waves. Phillia to be proper. This love is how it is and shall stay how it is. Ulysses love for
Penelope has yet to fade but she still wants this. Ulysses can only wonder to what may come of his
stay on the island of Ogygia. How long can her attempts fail before she is successful? More
importantly, how long until Penelope finds another to raise Telemachus? Thoughts run circles
through his mind leaving more questions than first thought. Pondering promiscuity never happens.
The occupancy of war tends to cloud thought but with this clarity of space, the imagination is free to
run wild about the happenings at home It cannot be home anymore. Wherever love resides, that is
home.