ACHILLES & PRIAM
ACHILLES & PRIAM It’s a couple of thousand years and more since the Greek and the Trojan Armies made war And Achilles slew Hector and refused him the fire and his vengeance unquenched stoked demonic desire. if you murder the living you can pay with your life but what have you to forfeit if you murder the dead you’d cease to be human the gates of hell would arise and consume your existence yet keep you alive Just so was Achilles contempt for the gods when he dragged Hector’s body round Troy’s wailing walls a war crime so vile yet the Greeks took delight in defiling the dead by day and by night King Priam, the father Of Hector, disguised Came bereft as a beggar Before Achilles own eyes And he cried like a woman Till Achilles cried too And gave back the body For what it was due. If you thought that old Homer Wrote to glorify war Think about how Achilles Won his soul back from hell he could have killed Hector’s father but he gave him a meal and they both drank together from the sam