I Envy The Greeks

Dream of their course hair

Of sloped noses sharp as their artillery

Sharper than those jagged Mediterranean cliffs

Of the beauty their ancestry built

Each night they sought the skies bliss

Sleeping among the earth

Admiring the beauty of the unknown

Creating their creators

I envy the Greeks

Their significance and intelligence

Menelaus brought us plumbing

Aristotle gave us philosophy

The Greeks give me reason

These graves give me truth

Throughout their existence

They brimmed with strength

Far beyond the relevance of youth

I envy the Greeks

And their course hair

Sharp features

Scriptured physiques

I wish to be them

The sculpted chests

The boar tearing biceps

I want to live among them

Inside their era

Facing wooden horses

And fireside songs

To hear of Paris

As he lives and breaths

And to marvel

In the life of Achilles

Yet now I stand

Feeling them softly

Fingers on aged marble

It seams Crack

As it carries throughout a mineral lifetime

I want to live among them

Be in their years

To lavish in fields

Shed olive oil tears

I'd sob in icarian seas

And worship my deities

I'd find comfort in creative religion

Surviving raw hardships

Sending Apollo my pleas

I want to live among them

For If I was one of their kind

Maybe I wouldn't feel so blind

I'd live as a man

And be revered

I wouldn't be ashamed

Living my life not feared