ODYSSEUS’ SONG

I loved a girl whose hair

shone in the sun like gold,

whose eyes sparkled with life.

I left her, frightened

when her eyes grew old.

I spent nine years at sea,

the memory of the pain

I left in her eyes

haunting me, impatient

to return again.

                                         Pavlos Andronikos

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