Classics;

as the saying goes

all roads lead to Rome

but Rome is also where the visit to Greece begins

it is from Rome that the minds longs to travel

away to that outpost of cultural order in the midst of wild nature

high on a mountainside in a rugged and lonely part of Arcadia

speculating and pondering: which is the greatest show on Earth?

(classics; chapter 8)

maybe; o maybe I was a Roman

or maybe I was not
I looked east and east

there lied my origin

as the sun went down in the west

I ran throughout the ancient world

collecting words and poems

along with its ancient myth

beneath the cloudless bluish-sky

it became a place where my mind could wander

from the life of Roman Empire 

till the rise of Byzantine

through the centuries

only one I could never leave

Greece it is