Calypsos Lament

Calypsos Lament

Immortal Goddess Calypso gets Odysseus an axe to build a raft so he can leave her island and return to Ithaka and his beloved wife Penelope.

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Inspired by Suzanne Vegas song Calypso:

My name is Calypso
And I have lived alone
I live on an island
And I waken to the dawn
A long time ago
I watched him struggle with the sea
I knew that he was drowning
And I brought him into me
Now today
Come morning light
He sails away
After one last night
I let him go.

My garden overflows
Thick and wild and hidden
Is the sweetness there that grows
My hair it blows long
As I sing into the wind
I tell of nights
Where I could taste the salt on his skin
Salt of the waves
And of tears
And though he pulled away
I kept him here for seven years
I let him go

In the dawn he sails away
To be gone forever more
And the waves will take him in again
But he’ll know their ways now
I will stand upon the shore
With a clean heart
And my song in the wind

The sand will sting my feet
And the sky will burn
It’s a lonely time ahead
I do not ask him to return

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From HOMERS Odyssey:
[...] Odysseus was washed ashore on the island of Calypso, who saved him from Poseidon’s anger…
He has spent seven years on Calypso’s island and she fell so much in love with him… After all she is persuaded to release him by the messenger god Hermes, who has been sent by Zeus. Odysseus built a raft and sailed away forever…

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