If twenty years separate us
And cast away upon the winds
Twenty years would I sail the seas
Bearing home tor’ my heart’s mend
You, my Penelope, I, Odysseus
A love kindled in time and space
Asunder may the waves bear us
But together always in our treasured place
But I will fight against the winds
That come to usher me
For even a day spent apart
Is too long from Penelope
THE WAYFARER 