So handsome and young

You ride into battle

Fair skin, clear eyes

Curling, wavy, long hair

Student of Aristotle

Your brilliance was blinding

Military, studying

You exceeded all men

Killing animals, hunting

Slaying men without regret

You showed your potential

To rule all the world

Alexander, Alexander

Up on your white house

You lived like a god

But died a mere mortal

Blessed by Athena 

Undefeated in battle

Your arm tireless,

Never ceasing

You lead from the front

Charging into the fray

Unafraid of dark Hades 

You earn the loyalty of men

Vanquishing Persians

Greeks and Indians

None stood against

Your Macedonian might

Son of your mother

Beautiful Olympias

Snake-lover, murderess

Devoted to you

Son of your father

Philip the Second

Olympic Games victor

Dead by Macedonian hand

Conqueror, Pharaoh

Ruler of Persia

Ended the Gordian Knot

With a flick of your knife

You white horse

Bucephalus

Faithful in battle

Dead in India

A city named for him

You married a Persian

The noble Roxana

An attempt to unite

The greatest of empires

Friend of Hephaestion

We you brothers or lovers?

Achilles and Patroclus 

Claimed he was “Alexander too”

Drank the red wine

Worshiping Dion

Until rosy-fingered Eos

Opened bright eyes

Fell ill at a banquet 

Catching fever and sickness

Poison?  The Gods?

You died so soon after

In death, you were beautiful

Still handsome as Endymion

Seemed to only be sleeping

Like Selene’s drowsy beloved

Alexander, Alexander

Who were you my love?

God, mortal, or other?

Still no one knows

Alexander, Alexander

Whatever you are

I’ll be yours forever

Even death can’t us part