Krisyllea M.

Calubo
ABM 11-B

Love, so strong is the feeling that it makes the world go round. Beauty, beauty feeds the soul. And
because no life is without suffering, the experience of beauty provides a contrast to the experience of
pain. All the rights of love and pleasures are mine. I am the great Olympian Goddess of love and
beauty, in sexual desire, eroticism and female power. Born between the union of heaven and earth came
forth a Goddess with such beauty and charm. I am Aphrodite, embodied with the brightest star in
heaven, the morning and the evening star and called by the Roman name of Venus. It was Cronos who
castrated my father and threw it into the sea, and from the sea foam there I rose and floated in on a
scallop shell.

I am capricious and tricksome, perhaps like sexual love itself, a thing not exactly trustworthy! I was the
cause of the Trojan war when I promised Paris the love of the most beautiful woman as he chose me as
the fairest Goddess. But Helen, was unfortunately married, and as I delivered my promise. BOOM! It
doomed Troy.

But what matters to me was, I was chosen as the fairest Goddess. And because of this beauty I possess
all the Gods then feared that if they were married to me, it would interrupt their peace. But Zeus
married me to Hephaestus, the God of craftsmen and the U G L I E S T GO D! I was never satisfied on
our marriage! Therefore, I looked for other companionship. There, I found Aries, the God of war. His
face's so perfect, his body's so perfect that I couldn't resist! Mmm.

And there was a time when Aries and I were all naked and we were on our private embrace, you know
what I mean ;) when Hephaestus came and caught us on a netted trap and all the Gods and Goddess
came and laughed at us. And Hephaestus cried and said " BECAUSE I AM LAME, SHE NEVER
SEIZES TO DO ME OUTRAGE AND GIVE HER LOVE TO ARIES. SINCE HE IS HANDSOME
AND I AM CRIPPLED SINCE FROM MY BIRTH BUT MY CUNNING CHAINS SHALL HOLD
THEM BOTH FAST TIL' HER FATHER ZEUS HAS GIVEN ME BACK ALL THE BETROTHAL
GIFTS I BESTOWED ON HIM FOR HER WANTON DAUGHTER! BEAUTY! BEAUTY SHE
HAS! BUT NO SENSE OF SHAME!"

It was a moment that I will never forget! I was embarrassed and I found at fault! My affair with Aries
has resulted into 3 children, and I bore many children form different fathers while Hephaestus and I
never had any children of our own. But our love, it was one one of beauty and craft, where art was
born.

The fading of flowers, the pulling of tide, will make one to realize that the Goddess of love and beauty
has disappeared from the earth. But like a Gold, I am everlasting and eternal. And each spring I return
to renew my vitality — spirit and flowers will soon begin to bloom..