Postmodern Odysseus (Homecoming)

Odysseus' Ithaca, Greece

As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery


Now that the time has come
Soon gone is the day
There upon some distant shore
You'll hear me say

Long as the day in the summer time
Deep as the wine dark sea
I'll keep your heart with mine
Till you come to me


May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbors you're seeing for the first time;
Arriving there is what you're destined for
But don't hurry the journey at all


There like a bird I'd fly
High through the air
Reaching for the sun's full rays
Only to find you there

Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey
Without her you wouldn't have set out
She has nothing left to give you now

And in the night when our dreams are still
Or when the wind calls free
I'll keep your heart with mine
Till you come to me

Wise as you will have become,
so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then
what these Ithakas mean



Ithaka, Constantine Cavafy
Penelope's Song, Loreena McKennitt


For the journey in all of us. For the people who wish us happiness along the way. For the people we leave behind. For the people who await our return.