WHAT WE HAVE GAINED

Beautiful person is good, as

external beauty can't exist without inner beauty;

virtue is tied to person's wealth and status,

like external beauty to inner beauty -

only in together can we have

the perfect man of ancient Greece:

The beautiful, virtuous aristocratic male

not defined by his deeds

but what he possess through birth.

His character is of the hardest marble,

of bronze that can not corrode.

It doesn't change, it endures

from birth to death and to the shadows

of the realm of Hades as Parmidean One.

To the Hellenes in their brightly painted

abodes Dorian Gray would

have been as impossible as Zeus ruling the seas.

10.01.2019