Athena: The Damsel who saved
the Knights!
Copyright © SHRAVANI MUKHERJEE
‘tis is not a ballad, or just another rhyme
Not at all for the chauvinistic type
‘tis about a fair damsel and her witty fights
Not her rescue,
But how she saved those valorous knights!
The times were hard, Trojans at war
It was raining fire, without law and order
Paris had stole Helen, and Troy was in mess
Thanks to Aphrodite’s selfish boons and grace!
Achilles, an almost immortal was called on stage
Victor with Athene’s shrewd wit and rage
Odysseus was aided, in a divine archery stand
To save Penelope and recapture Ithaca, his own land
Heracles was another devout to hallowed Minerva
She guided him to defend the reptile-haired Medusa
Born of Zeus’s heady thoughts armed with her Labrys
This lassy Olympian had defeated Posiedon and his
Athens whims
Her Holiness, with her nocturnal Glaucus and Erichthonius
crawled
Is a mighty femme, always through ages idolized and honoured
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