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Cassandra  Tried...

Copyright K. Kozak, 2008.

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Cassandra tried and cried and tried;
     She saw the truth, but no one believed her;
Neither friends, nor King Priam's own family...
     Apollo gave her the gift of divine prophesy,
But, rejected by her, withdrew believability...
     Almost as if she were mute or invisible, or
Perhaps, in her passionate desire to inform,
     Her manner cancelled out her urgent messages....
 
She warned of the tragic, ancient Trojan War,
     Fought by gods and goddesses and soldiers...
She divined the ultimate purpose of Ulysses'
     Treacherous Trojan Horse, still unheeded --
She saw the final destruction of her beloved Troy;
     Still, no one listened to her desperate visions...
Cassandra kept wanting to warn, to help, to belong;
     And her intensity only made others uncomfortable.

 

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Last modified: 08/21/08.