APW's Assignment for March 2013

APW’s assignment: Write a poem using the following line -  “First evening in Athens, a long goodbye”

Roots

grow deep
this rambler found
that time can’t  detach.
Yet I, with simple longing
and unrealistic dreams of life, felt
newly untethered when I moved from home
never imagining that it was but the commencement
of yearning and sad remembrance that dated from my
first evening in Athens, a long goodbye to the past.

 
A near Etheree, I guess?  Instead of syllables I used word count.