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Aphrodites Apple
‘For the fairest’
This honored title
Inscribed on a golden apple
This is to be judged by man?
Three goddesses
Arguing, bitching, bickering
A wonderstruck Shepard,
An unknown prince
Paris
Promises flicker in his ears
Spiteful Hera
Goddess of marriage
‘Rule the world with my help’
Powerful Athena
Goddess of War
‘You will be the hero of great battles’
Flirting Aphrodite
Goddess of Love
‘The most beautiful woman will be yours’
Seductive whispers are tempted
Paris hands the apple to Aphrodite
Aphrodite gives him Helen of Sparta
Married to King Menelaus
The most beautiful woman in the world
Beautiful enough to die for
1,000 ships cross the ocean full of soldiers
To fight for their kings wife
Now named Helen of Troy
Kassandras warning rings through the town
Others say “She is mentally ill, don’t listen”
Talking of earthquakes and death
Of Gods that are angry
Of wooden horses
Idols to Poseidon
10 long years of fighting and death
Of unheard warnings from Kassandra
Finally the forewarnings are believed
But too late
Troy falls
The cause of this tragedy
A contest of beauty
Selfish goddesses fighting for a prize
For an apple
