When we return to Ithaca,
after twenty years,
twenty long years in war
and on the currents
of the harsh sea,
do we come back
as Odysseus in flesh,
the cunning king,
to his loyal wife and son,
or do we come back
as some companion, who
- in the tale we will tell -
was swallowed by Scylla
or Charybdis,
when it was the king,
who after twenty years
of telling us tales of his life,
describing the
pimple on Penelope's breast,
the scar on Telemachus' thigh,
perished in the monster's mouth?
Yes, do we come back
as a companion equal to his king
in cunning, draping
ourselves with his form and words,
or do we, after twenty years,
twenty long years in war
and on the currents
of the harsh sea,
be as much Odysseus in thought,
as Odysseus the king was,
him living in us,
us dying in him?
Does it matter then,
who comes back,
whose shade wanders
in the gloom of Hades?
Odysseus has
returned to Ithaca.
03.02.2021
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