Poor Greece look like a spent force
The Independent on Sunday, 3 June 2012
For years they have soft-soaped us
with their frothing currencies;
now they demand of us
the soil in which Leonidas still seethes
over the cull of Spartan fathers,
and the turquoise Aegean waters
into which, long after Xerxes fled,
the blood of Greece still seeps.
We will show their emissaries
all the traditional hospitalities,
the same ones the Persians met
from the vastly outnumbered Greeks:
a watery grave, a suit of clay,
a readiness to find honour in defeat.
(c) 2012 Slush Poet
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