The Time It Takes

Bless you, sweet Goddess Adrestia
For crossing across all the unheartened waves, beating unsure
For so long.

You come through the odyssey
With your hourglass
Still
Because time is beholden to the Gods
And not man

But kind you are
And blessed be
All your siblings - the daughters and sons of Aphrodite and Ares,
Each one with their rightful place
For the eventual righteousness
Of the righteous

Who hold faith
Regardless
With the endless hope
Of those who have lost
Everything
They thought
Founded mankind

Humanity transgressed by hubris
And narcissism
Is blessed by your cousin, Nemesis
Who I believed oppositional
Almost didn't believe in at all
After I saw the wake

Adrestia.  Everything in name
And deed.
Because our name is only as good as our word
And our word is only as good as our deed.

Indeed, you stood by me.
Faith.
Hope.
Love.

Time.

I'll be waiting.