Power of the Gods

Over years since my father has been away at war, all that both me and my mother, Penelope, can thing about is what is actual happening to him, why all of this is happening to us, and how all of this came to be and what is to come out of it. So after years and years, days and nights, we now believe that all that is going on it the will of the gods and the both our and my father’s futures rely on the gods’ decisions and choices. This angers me to the extent where I cannot even function. This is the same case for my mother, even though she does not show it around me, but it is tearing our family apart! To the gods this is only a game, something that is taken advantage of for the “greater good” of the gods. Our family may just be a mere particle compared to the rest of their world, but it is a very important one to us. Family shouldn’t be taken as a game to anyone! Especially to those whose loved ones may even be gone forever. I cannot stand the power of the gods, the little respect they have for both one and other and for all of us, their servants. To the gods, as long as we sacrifice to them and pay them respect, they will help us through life and give us what we want. Both my mother and I have been doing this before and ever since my father left for Troy and the war is nearly years over now and I have not received anything. I have one wish, one request, one need, and that is to have my father back into this family with my mother so that our family is no longer split. If the gods cannot accomplish the one hope the both me and my mother have, then the gods have no power or honor for the years that our family has spent giving to them, and the many years that my father spent in Troy fighting for his life to honor the gods and more importantly our family. The gods should respect all that my father has gone through of them and at least give us the courtesy to see him one last time. The gods should have no power if they don’t know how to use it to the advantage of all who need it most. And right now, we are the ones who need it, and as far as I know the gods are doing nothing to help his journey back to Ithaca. I know that in the past my father has become enemies with Poseidon but that is no reason for keeping him from coming back home to his family that has been waiting for him for many years. But as I said in the beginning, it is all in the gods’ hands because they have the power. Even if I do not believe they are using it in the right ways, they still have the power to do whatever feels right.