Mouse by Daniel Southerland
Leonidas by David Ahlman
Leonidas by David Ahlman
This is my eulogy,
A message to Greek:
Brass shields,
Hot gates,
And longs spears
Wet
Bleed.
This is my eulogy,
A request of Greece:
To unite
City-states,
Maintain
The
Peace.
This is my eulogy,
An epic for Athens:
Forget not
The dead
Thermopylae
Did
Bed.
This is my eulogy,
A promise to Persia:
Xerxes
And Empire
Will withdraw,
Will
Fall.
This is my eulogy,
For Gorgo and Sparta:
We men
300
Fought brave,
Now
Martyrs.
This is my eulogy –
A decedent of Heracles:
I am
Immortal,
I am
Sparta’s
King.
