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We have but one, yet
it covers the subject entire.
The Greeks had more,
to great knowledge enquire.
EROS - for passion,
longing and sensual desire,
Without necessarily
including a sexual fire.
For a deeper feeling,
as for beauty admire,
And even for
spiritual truth aspire.
Platonic by Plato
from Eros inspire.
PHILIA - is a
friendship, to Greeks even today.
Aristotle, that
thinker, in his heyday,
Developed the
concept, of dispassionate virtue display,
For deepest
relations, of loyalty mainstay,
Between family or
friends, of fun interplay.
Where lovers enjoy
each other’s horseplay.
Of the three, less
serious, more like foreplay!
Now, the English use
LOVE, for any attraction
But Greeks use AGAPE,
for general affection
And to pass to a cook
- general appreciation.
We’re called to do it
instead of altercation,
To those we face with
great apprehension.
To our neighbours,
family and friends in confirmation,
That
they are special in our socialisation.
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