notes: tiếng anh, reference thần thoại hy lạp và trường ca achilles.

Anteros: God of reciprocated love
Eros: God of passion, desire
Hymenaios: God of marital love
Himeros: God of unrequited love
Pothos: god of longing/yearning for one who's unattainable
Achaeans: Homeric term for Greeks
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sing, oh anteros, a song
that will distinguish you among
beings alike: eros and hymenaios
beings of spite: pothos and himeros

for i have so long heard
the knock of eros, stirred
by my countless encounters with blurred
faces, who cannot feel the urge
to cherish, leaving me unheard.

for i have yet to learn
why, the pyre of hymenaios burns
how, this fire of his spurned
away the souls who couldn't earn
his beatitude, now in sorrow for eterne.

for i have grown resent
to pothos, and the woe he so oft-sent
plague worse than of apollo who bent
achaeans down onto their knees, in repent
for their grave crimes which caused lament.

and him, conspired with his line
himeros, wings heavy with tears of mine.
they struck when i thought bliss was nigh
pray, tell, how much more must i cry?
to ache and want nights after nights
with no reply.

so sing, anteros, sing
convert my winter into spring,
for you alone could thaw the ice,
bring light to heart of one whom vice
was caring for their soul's demise.