Circe To Odysseus (Free Verse Sonnet) Poem by Gert Strydom

(after Elisabeth Eybers)

Here where I am to you beautiful and ardently loving,
I do ask that you do grant me one more night with you,
I know how it's going to ache in the future when I do miss you,
where I know about the dangers that are waiting outside on you.
Go to where your duty and gods do lead you
when later I try and stop you in various ways,
do want you to stay eternally here with me,
as you are more than anything on earth to me
but do stay now until daybreak does come,
where with your ship you will have to sail over a tormenting sea
and my love and feeling I cannot now disguise,
where it is written over my face and body
and against the evil I want to protect you with my wings,
but you are free where the rest of your life does stretch out before you.

[Reference: "Circe" by Elisabeth Eybers.]

© Gert Strydom