I want to go back home,
and every day I hope that day will come.
If some god strikes me on the wine-dark sea,
I will endure it. By now I am used
to suffering—I have gone through so much,
at sea and in the war. Let this come too.
—Homer, The Odyssey, book 5, lines 219–242
Going Home by Phil Greenwood (Welsh, b. 1943)