After Odysseus - Long, Long After Homer

To Greece we travel; not as heroes, though.
No need for that heroic nonsense now.
Odysseus' Ionian, we know,
Was where he aimed for, finally, but how
He took so long Penelope, aghast,
Had asked a thousand days and nights alone.
And when he made the journey home at last,
Then how did her Odysseus atone?

I think they married, later than they might,
For many years had passed while they, apart,
Lay fretting for each other every night -
Penelope at least feared for her heart.

I kept you waiting longer than I should,
But love, I came as quickly as I could.