Calypso Returns

10 March 2026

https://poems.culturing.net/2026/03/10/calypso-returns/

Calypso returns to my mind out of nowhere.
It was she who taught me about desire,
how no laws can really contain it, and she
who taught me to fear desire. I do not think
she was right. I think she was desperate,
though strong and noble in her own way. I'm convinced
that twice she propositioned me, though I feigned ignorance,
knowing that circumstances forbid it. And yet I returned,
and returned again, to see her, and for what purpose?
To sort myself out? Assuredly not out of love, but perhaps
from an untamed desire that needed to find expression
before it could be understood. I do hope she's well,
but that is not the same as love. I can say that now.
It may be she was sorting herself out too.
There were energies exchanged that I cannot exactly explain.
I will take those memories with me to my grave.