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The Human Kind

by Maria Terezia Ferencz

If I were a Goddess
who would I be?
Filled with such love
I am Aphrodite

I am so earthy
I am not bourgeois
so humbly useful
Am I Gaia?

But no...
I am too dark too deep
I can't be she
I think I am
Persephone

Yet again at times
I am brutally wise
My head so full
of thoughts of dreams
Perhaps I am the great Athene?

Hold on cancel what I've said
for I am unthinking
I make mistakes I do not mean
breaking trusts
I must be Pheme

Yet I can be
the hunting kind
Stalking among men
Elusive sublime
Yes!
I could be the eternal Miss
so call me by the name
Artemis

I am also quite jealous
how my envy grows
am I wrong again?
Am I Hera?
Who the hell knows?

There are far too many sides to me
for just one name
to define
I guess I am just
the human kind

04/25/2005

Posted on 04/25/2005
Copyright © 2026 Maria Terezia Ferencz

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Brett Shane on 04/26/05 at 07:58 AM

wow, i loved the transition from stanza to stanza here.. excellent write!

Posted by Jeffrey Parren on 04/26/05 at 06:55 PM

another great piece of introspection, realizing yourself helps you realize and understand others...if you choose to! ~JPP

Posted by Charlie Morgan on 04/30/05 at 04:42 PM

...well, you did it this time! again...a great write...heavy with us humans being busy "trying" to be SOMETHING! annnnd we are ALL. paragraph, end of paper, end of story...wonderful lil' lilt here using real (myths) to cover from thennnnn til now, the only thing that's changed is our underwear and the clocks on the wall, humnankind trudges right along in the footprints placed before us...great read, maria...chaz

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