So sometimes I think of Adeodatus
And his mother, whom Augustine never names
Augustine becomes a saint
Drops her for God
Writes great theological works
Influences the Catholic Church
For centuries after his death
Is rediscovered and influences
The Protestant Reformation also.

Adeodatus dies at 18.
His mother fades into the anonymous past.

Lord make me chaste, but not yet.
That is an honest prayer!

But what about her?
What would she think
Of her now famous ex-lover?

Unde Malum? tormented Augustine
Camus (another North African) as well.

Me too.

Never been to Algeria. Or Ostia.
But I have been to Rome
Contraria Sunt Complementa
De Docta Ignorantia. Tryin' to get home.