As token payment long since overdue
From your eternal debtor—
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This we declare:
By all men in extremity everywhere,
By earth and water, by fire and air,
We solemnly swear:
Homer is not dead,"
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Homer wrote a story. A story about a war. A war among Greeks. When it ended, somewhere around 1200 bc a few men never made it back home, to Kyrenia in the Peloponese. Instead they landed in northern Cyprus. Two Kyrenian brothers founded Kyrenia & Lapithos each. The place reminded them of home. Their kingdoms, along with many similar others gave Cyprus its character through the millennia. Rich. Uninterrupted.
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Homer is not dead.
But the debt is. Long forgotten.
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Fascist and Hun
Cleansed from the land of Demosthenes?
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I cannot even begin to describe our agony
for the lessons abused, the lessons not learned
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Demosthenes would have a thing or two to say
to the eternally indebted about bizonal blasphemy
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We too have one
OXI
Source: Comment on 30-10-2015
Inspired by: http://hellenicleaders.com/blog/countdown-oxi-day-poem-greeks-will-touch-soul/#.VjMiddLhBwx
