And now you return, thrice noble Odysseus: <br />How, pray tell, do your people greet you? <br />They greet with song and dance, with festivity and song. <br />They greet with legends made and newer poems sung. <br /> <br />Why cry you now, thrice noble Odysseus? <br />Your people in the street rejoice! <br />Frivolity and reverie replace struggle, strife; <br />Here you are, to Penelope returned, your beloved wife! <br /> <br />Whence come these sighs, o weary traveler? <br />They come from distant shores, m’lord, <br />Fraught with peril and journey’s loss: <br />Adventure’s greatest times. <br /> <br />(Honolulu, April 2003)<br /><br />Adam Maruyama<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/odysseus-s-return/
