Monologue From Odysseus In Homer's Odyssey

Odysseus S.P.D. Penelope, Salve my wonderful wife. Te amo! I miss you immensely and I cannot wait until we win the war with my splendid plan, come home to you, see my little boy, and be able to see your beautiful face. I love you so much! I miss you with all my heart. I am hoping that the Greeks come home celebrating soon. I have an idea on how to end this tragic war. I believe that the plan will end this war! I will tell you the story on the idea. So one day I was sitting in my tent telling myself that I will return to you and Telemachus. I told myself that we will win this war. We will come back with smiles on our faces and greet our loved ones! That is when I realized that I needed to come up with a plan that will defeat the Trojans! I thought and thought of every possible solution and outcome until I came across one of the strangest ideas but I thought every detail out and realized it could work out! My idea is that we build a big, wooden horse! I know it sounds weird, thats what I thought too. I thought everything out; first we build the horse big enough to fit all of us, except one. The one that is

You are the best thing that’s happened to me and your mother! I remember you from the little time I spent with you, and I remember seeing how you are going to be a great leader! You are the person I need in my life right now. Your mother has spent almost ten years with you now, I know that I can never change that. I know that you two have a bond I dont have with you. I wish that I could just leave this war right now and come home to you! I love you, and I promise that I will spend my whole life helping you, teaching you, and be with you! I will never leave your side again! Having to leave you when you were a baby, was like having the Fates, kill me by cutting the string of my life. Then put on a boat knowing it would take me forever to see you again. I miss you so much and I am going to be so proud when I lay eyes on you! Te