“Penelope” by Jay Parini

When nothing in the world seems quite all right,
it takes some patience just to watch and pray.
Think of Penelope, pulling apart by night
the subtle stitches that she wound by day,
believing that Odysseus would find his way
through time and certain turbulence to light
again upon her shore, this time to stay.

Jay Parini
The Art of Subtraction (2005)