In the story of Patroclus
no one survives, not even Achilles
who was nearly a god.
Patroclus resembled him; they wore
the same armor.
Always in these friendships
one serves the other, one is less than the other:
the hierarchy
is always apparant, though the legends
cannot be trusted–
their source is the survivor,
the one who has been abandoned.
What were the Greek ships on fire
compared to this loss?
In his tent, Achilles
grieved with his whole being
and the gods saw
he was a man already dead, a victim
of the part that loved,
the part that was mortal.
End of the poem
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- Николай Гумилев – Лиловый цветок
- Love’s Unity poem – Alfred Austin
- The Net Of Memory
- I Remembered by Sara Teasdale
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- Георгий Иванов – То, о чем искусство лжет
- Sunk Lyonesse by Walter de la Mare
- Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies by Sylvia Plath
- The Lion by Vachel Lindsay
- To Gnedich poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Николай Языков – Жизни баловень счастливый
- Crowride poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
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