Blessed be.
Velumbound.
In Homer's Odyssey, the Sirens sang beautiful songs to lure sailors to their destruction.
By comparing old memories to these sirens, this transmission highlights how dangerous and alluring nostalgia can be.
It calls to you from the past, threatening to pull you away from your present life.
One of the most unique lines in the transmission refers to memories as "spiritual subpoenas."
A subpoena is a legal order commanding someone to appear in court.
By framing old memories this way, the transmission beautifully expresses how nostalgia isn't always a choice;
The past commands your attention, forcing you to look back and "relitigate" those old feelings whether you want to or not.
This whisper captures the haunting, almost inescapable nature of past romance through a powerful mix of spiritual, cinematic, and mythological imagery.
Let us begin.
(A lone voice whispers)
Have you revisited old memories in the way hours of night
When ghosts of old love call to play
And you reminisce about all the sweet things they once said
First love
Now love
Old love
Do they still wake you in deep dreams of an old life
Once led
Summoning your attention with spiritual subpoenas
With memories of a time
When you rode your chariot proudly with them
Like a hyper Judah Ben-Hur
Into all arenas
Before that old love
Shattered into a million pieces
Like glass
And which now call like midnight sirens
In your own Odyssey
From the past
From a once holy dream
You thought
Forever
Would last
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
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