Essence of Love

As I bow in heartfelt genuflection

to think upon the Greeks

who divined four words

for Love and it's reflection

Agape is the hightest form divine

with selfless care for those who are mine

It's fruit is known by what I do

and building all the parts of you

phileo is brotherly affection

the natural friendship and it's connection

storge the love that resides in family

within instinct and it's propensity

Eros seems to be most appreciated

never have I found it one who's hated

Two sides to Eros have manifested

both sides has mankind ever tested

Lust and the table of the self

or love of mate and pleasure in it's wealth

All of us has been given this in measure

the dispensing of it can give us pleasure

But rapture is contained when all four live

when we with complete heart choose to give

all of us the truth within resisted

but knowledge of it ever has persisted

to teach us which we are to excercise

the breath of spirit which within us lies

will direct upon us our course and path

and when we pass love is our epitath

 

 

for Homers" Achilles" legendary and Socrates the Athenian

May truth ever be gleaned from Noble Men

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