By: Bryan Ricardo Marini Quintana
Where does a Sailor land ashore,
When he has lost sight of his course?
Nowhere else but upon those Western Shores!
He hears Virgil sing of arms and a man, Aeneas from Troia,
Who sailed to Italia, uniting Latins and Trojans,
As Romulus’ Fratricide founded a City for those Romans!
He evokes how Brutus ousted the Last of the Etruscan Kings,
To erect a Republic in the Forum for the Senate and People of Rome,
Where Patricians and Plebeians pledged allegiance as Equal Citizens!
Atop the Aventine, the Triumvirates devise dire designs,
While he savors Cicero’s endlessly eloquent speeches,
Lecturing about the sanctity of the state and its noble laws!
Upon the Palatine, he sees Caesar’s Crossing that Omens Civil War,
In Actium, Octavian decides the fate of Antony and Cleopatra,
Until the Age of Augustus ushers in the Days of the Caesars and the Pax Romana!
The Western Voyager 