Alexander
He had the countenance and features of
Great gods. Believing this, men fashioned for
Him attributes humanity must love:
Invincibility shot through with more
Than imperfection—sadness from desire,
The will to triumph at the greatest cost,
An aching for the fullness from that fire
Prometheus usurped; a Pentecost
Of tongues inside his soul to lick his pure
Devotion to Hephaistion—and high
Accomplishments immense enough to cure
The envy stings in Zeus’s unclosed eye.
..This king committed suicide with wine,
….Yet sacked Persepolis’s flames still shine.