You you Athena The goddess my ancestors once worshiped still sits perched upon the columns of the Acropolis make no mistake The circling bird that would sit on so crud this shoulder Whisper into the ear of Pythagoras and who wiped the tears from my great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandmother's face Came to me right after my Trojan war as I laid upon the ocean floor covered by the weight of my own tears by crevice of brothers who I've lost who should now be men a shipwreck of another I may never trust again and a barnacle encrusted rubble of a love that should have never come to an end she came to me She loomed as large as my own pain Spread her wings to be the size of my own faith and motioned me to take from her that which would now be used to Inscribe my own name She closed her eyes as I grasped the feather and hardly quivered as I ripped the quill from her chest Take it she said and as I did I saw the millions of ships that she'd witnessed thick with my fellow Countrymen soldiers and pirates all writing notes home to their wives on lines of papyrus I saw Homer riding the Iliad in Odysseus prophet Isilis writing love letters to Medea I kill a reading scrolls to the minions and Plato just taking a note before we'd voiced an opinion.
I saw them all And at that moment Apollo stood forth took the quill from my hand took the black sticky ink from the most ancient squid and filled it and said May this ink come to your defense as it has for this old squid against every fisherman who has ever lived as it has for Every anarchist freedom fighter and activist they'll say actions speak louder than words until your words make people act like this Then King Constantino stood forth and sang These Sanesti Nick The not The not Don't buy the Skate he said this me my see Lucas had a lumbos.
He said your name means lights joy I illuminated your first name is the same name as the first saying who painted the first icons that line our churches in a worshiped Every day you shall not be afraid at that moment The ocean began to fall the waves crashing above me began to look like clouds again And I began to feel something like proud again All of my ancestors stood forth and said to me I look up right with this quill so that when you're great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great Granddaughter is in pain and needs to be freed may you come and stand with us so we all can give her Exactly what she needs may our air in your lungs speak new words with your tongue sick or pannel stand up son You have only just begun
