O Leonidas! There is love for convictions;
there is the dignity of freedom to uphold
There is a pride in immense sacrifice. To be a
fortress of faith even if your ramparts are fallen in
fate! The deep-sea Xerxes would have, of course,
no guilt to take your men. Death is better
than being swallowed by evil. Brave Leonidas(!),
you did certainly know that truth, on the passage of
Thermopylae, where your men lay dead! And your head was
severed from your body by the evil Xerxes of deep
sea Persia. You have your battles fought well
in defeat, like I have mine. There is no shame,
though there is perverse humiliation! Yet, we are untouched!
For, heroes live in mythology, sung in cryptic praise to, by time’s
troubadours! Villains live in history. If the world is taken over,
what do we have to lose? We will have the harpsichords
of eternity play for us. They will have the indignity of
eternal damnation! Is civilisation built on folly, structured
on the faultlines of villainy? Leonidas, I don’t care anymore
for the future than you did, but just to battle for the truth;
even if we must lose to deceit, betrayal and villainy!
We must choose our fate even if it means in the battlegrounds
of self-destruction; so that we be ever-rising Phoenixes that die
but never surrender!
You couldn’t save Greece, just like I cannot save humanity!
But at least you fought and died to teach Greece to save itself!
Just like I sacrificed an eternity to teach humanity to redeem itself!!!!
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