from time to time

I feel

Ulysses’ torment

the day he tied himself

with ropes of sorrow

to never again hear

the dreadful sweet song

of overwhelming temptation

that came

from the deepest of deep

like him

I wandered

lost in limitless waters

while

all I could feel

was just the infinite

embracing me

and churning

my sacred will for life

into an everlasting eddy

— Petra Vlah