About The Trojan Horse

Barbarians Were At The Gates

Barbarians were at the gates

Of Rome while it was I recall

Enjoying orgies with playmates

That occupied the banquet hall.

Aeneas long before fled home

Bearing his father out of Troy

And after that he founded Rome

That later on would self-destroy.

Impregnable was Troy until

It fell to Grecian stratagem:

A horse was crafted by such skill

By means of it they bested them.

Unable to scale Trojan walls

By any use of outright force

The Greeks decided to play false

And gave the foe a Trojan horse.

The Trojans in their foolish pride

(Imagining the Greeks were true)

Wheeling the Trojan Horse inside

Did what they were most likely to;

Then once within the city’s wall

Out of the Horse’s innards crept

The Grecian who after nightfall

Slew every Trojan as they slept.

You wonder how can people fail

To see through such a trickery?

They’d let their enemies prevail

Refusing to search out and see;

While history is there to show

Whatever has occurred before

In spite of all that which we know

We let it come to pass once more.