Aphrodite, the goddess of love

Aphrodite, The Goddess of love, beauty and fertility, involved herself on an occasion in the affair of a mortal hero. When Jason, the mortal hero, asked permission of the King of Colchis to remove the Golden Fleece from the grove in which it hung, the king was clearly unwilling. So the goddess Hera, who sponsored Jason's quest, asked her fellow-Olympian, Aphrodite to intervene. The love goddess made the king's daughter Medea fall in love with Jason, and Medea proved instrumental in Jason's success.
This poem resembles the reverse-summoning Jason to fall in love with Medea at Medea's request.



I beckon a call to Aphrodite,
for one reason, just and precisely...
to help me find my one true love.
We rode the winds East,
then took them West...
We traveled South and North a bit,
but still we didn't find my Prince.
Aphrodite said to me,
"Rest my child soon it will be."
"I will come back, should this fine hero appear
and make him want to stay with you forever."

So rest, I did and the years passed by;
Some days I laughed and others I cried;
Still my hero, I did not find.

Then one day--
I met this hero of a man,
that made my heart sing--
he was a wonderful mortal being,
determined and captivating.
If only to make him fall in love with me,
we could live in peace and harmony.
This hero I could love--
he had no boundary,
I wanted to be with him,
I made the call to Aphrodite...

Please Goddess of love, fulfill my wish--
I promise him a life of happiness,
For only to be in love just once--
I will be true to him and no-one else.
Bring down on him--
your grace of love and I will protect him,
eternally on Earth.
Without any shame or selfish pity,
please bless me with his love, Aphrodite!

Bless me she did--
I have never looked back or regretted the call;
For to be in love once,
is better than never being in love at all.