Book 5

This Odysseus and I'm back and very sore. I am free from Kalypso, and can now access my neglected blog. I can see that my son has been searching for me, and how he is annoyed by the suitors. Telemakhos, fear no longer cause daddy's coming home. That is if Poseidon permits. His grudge against me has made my jouney to this shore vey hard. Well, I guess I should start from the beggining. I was staring out upon the sea, weeping for home like usual, when Kalypso approached me, and said she decided she would free me. After all these years! I was overwhelmed, but then as she was describing how I must go about the Western Ocean on a raft I had second thoughts. She surely must have been trying to harm me for the Western Ocean is not one which can be easily conquered. However, she told me other wise, so I made a ship and prepared it. On the fifth day of making the ship, everything was ready and I took off. It was sweet sailing for the majortiy of the trip. Poseidon though had other plans for his worst mortal enemy, me. Just as I saw the shorline of Skheria the ocean turned into a strom that would make a tornado look like a summer breeze. As the winds blew from every direction, I pondered on this moment. Would it be my last? Was Kalypso correct when she said that I would come across many lethal problems on my journey? Just as I was thinking a wave washed me overboard and broke my ship to pieces. Poseidon must have surely hated me to cause my ship to crash through th seas like a leaf. Ino, a nereid, then came down and instructed me to swim ashore with her veil instead of Kalypso's robe. At first I would not listen because I had seen the shore, and it was too far away to swim, but when I tried to grab a plank I was just pounded with Poseiden's destructive work. As I swam I felt a swell in the water, and as if a god was carrying me. The swell took me straight to land after three days. It was like a dream that made my pains disappear. I saw land and trees adn rocks. yes I realzed that there was no were for me to land for I would be smashed into the rocks at any point. All I could do was stare, and now decide on what I should do. Once again though, Poseidon was not kind and threw me upon the jagged rocks. Then it pulled me under and out like an octopus. When the sea freed its grip I swam up and along the shore, and I saw one of the most beautiful sandy beaches I ever saw. I crawled onto shore and up land. Making a important decision of what to do with my desamted body cralwed under these twin bushes where I lay now. I must sleep and let my body heal. Good night.