Fair Ganymede

Fair Ganymede...

the god's endowed...

how helplessly...

we gaze upon...

as Zeus himself...

what mortal...

if immortal narrowly...

resist...

could but fawn...

to fain pursuit...

of such enchantedness...

were it natural...

to be...

by sun...

wind...

water...

stone...

so near the norm...

of heaven's golden mean...

I would thank God...

for thee...

and gaze the more...

and more...

I dare conceive...

for now...

alas...

we set aside...

such things...

though in the heart...

discretion's harbor...

holds thee tenderly...

in love's embrace...


Written by Bruce James Clyde 2015

Art: Ganymede in Presence of Jupiter and Juno, by Ippolito Scarsella 1595-1600