The Legend of Good Women

The woman is the better half:
we hear it every day,
but the better half of what is what
they always fail to say.

We all recall Penelope
for steadfastness and tact;
her silken weavings drove them mad,
brought Odysseus back.

But did she pine for all those years?
Was anything amiss?
No. Her heart was wholly occupied
by her Telemachus.

She held him on his birthing day
as a mother only can;
it was then that old Odysseus
became a traveling man.