A Twist on Homers Odyssey - 1175 Words

Dear Alexandra, O my lady, I miss so you. I know it has been years since I have seen you last, but I want you to know that my travels with the heroic Odysseus has gone terrible. I have done horrific things that I hope you can forgive. Everything was fine until our sail home from Troy, where we all acted like reckless fools and all hell broke loose. We have been cursed by the gods Zeus and Poseidon and now I’m afraid that this letter will be my last. On our way home to Ithaca, the winds blew us to the land of Ismarus. I was stored on wine, drunk, so drunk I can only remember the evil have done. Picking fights with the Cicones, raping innocent women, killing innocent men. I try to tell myself I was young, it wasn’t my fault and it was the vicious vine that made me do all those horrible things, but, deep down I knew what I had done was horrendous and ungodly as well as unforgivable. If only I had listen to wise Odysseus call. I believe it was ‘Back, and quickly! Out to sea again. 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