Short Takes

[Ranai]

Thanks dear learningtopleez, Mad, Mo! The characters and setting are not mine of course. I just had fun putting words into their mouths and struggling with the metre.

Background info:

Ogygia is the island where the hero involuntarily hangs out at the beginning of Homer’s Odyssey. On his hazardous voyage back from the destruction of Troy, Odysseus is detained there as prisoner and love slave of the nymph Calypso. The Stockholm Syndrome does not seem to work on Ogygia: After seven years with the immortal nymph, Odysseus still tells her that he just wants to go home! Only when Hermes, sent by the Olympians, intercedes on the hero’s behalf, the goddess must reluctantly let him depart. Well, it seems Calypso enjoyed her captive while she had him. Dialogues like the above may have recurred, in variations, many times in those seven years of captivity.