Remembering Dido

All cities were women in the ancient days 

of Latium and Greece. 

And the Gods that ruled over them 

knew not of their coastal waves 

nor the mysterious secrets

that their feudal walls could keep.

In those aging hours to the 

masculine desires their nature 

did not heed. 

The creatures of their city, 

called feminine too, all but the 

flowers of the strawberry tree.

There was little these great virile 

forces could widdle, from the hearts 

of angels not eager to please.

In the death of an empire their spirits

still faithful, to a country their 

daughters could not live to see.