To all the Gods that hear me now-
Watch the fate that you allowed.
Spurned boons maketh a cursed life.
The desired fruit gotten uninvited Strife.
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Nepotism threatens even the God of Gods-
An unnerving wife and the girls he begot.
Any disposition could put him in the folly,
Morally wrong and definitely sorry.
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Vainglory and extraordinary ego at stake,
To stir up a Goddess, what does it really take?
This wrong you already know, it’s the heart’s fault,
Alas no matter who loses, only Paris will fall.
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Wisdom and war come together in a body,
Both grace and fierceness she doth embody.
Intelligent composure soon turn into feral rage
To bring her satisfaction, the war will be waged.
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Ironically she be the Goddess of marriage,
Displease the splenetic, call for carnage.
Unlike the others the glow of good nature she lack,
Vex the nefarious and in the worst marriage be trapped.
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The world not seen such heavenly beauty,
Charm be irresistible is her duty.
How can one not love, Love herself?
In the game she made, how she not be deft?
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Beauty is skin-deep, is that really so?
If she was most intelligent, would he be lucky more?
A happy marriage with an ugly fool, not fine?
Between the greatest of blessings, how does one be inclined?
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Zeus’s hopes of objectivity, completely destroyed.
Of loyalty, Paris’s marriage now be void.
A venal man, fell for manipulation coy.
A small mistake then becomes the war of Troy.
-Tannisha Avarrsekar
Tannisha Avarrsekar 