This collection is an invitation to travel with me through the many landscapes of love and lost love. Here, Menaka's seduction holds hands with the ache of Ulysses' longing for home; Judas's fateful betrayal sits beside the gentle ache of afternoons spent in the shadows of personal sorrow. The ancient and the intimate coalesce, bound by a thread both universal and deeply personal. These poems emerge from a fascination with the ways in which love shapes destinies and leaves shadows in its wake. In myth, love is often the seed of both glory and calamity. Through the wistful yearning of Ulysses, Love for the country, i have tried to explore all.