Melissos did not cry when he felt the outside world for the first time, since his mother, Goddess Athena, made it so. I would have surely cried upon leaving Athena’s safe womb for this so-called new world, although I would have rejoiced as soon as I beheld, at least in my mind, the love in her eyes. My little heart would have capitulated without her hand caressing it from every angle. Melissos’ small heart was large in another way, as a part of Athena corticated through it like her original olive tree.
Death will come for you too, dear Melissos, my boy
Entreating you to accept its absence of joy
Admonishing any resistance to its force
Relegating every effort to live, off course
Meandering at first, we will keep it at bay
Enveloped in its shrouds of mysterious fey
Love will help to subdue its unrelenting step
Inwards and beyond, where eternal doth two-step
Sleep only to awake stronger and full of aim
Serving no one except your Olympian name
O Athena my love now and forevermore
Save us as well from the fourth and final world war
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Patrick M. Ohana
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