Venus of the Air

You see Aphrodite there on her pedestal? When I made her I was lying. See her face? That is the face of my love. I lied by carving Love's image in stone. But stone lasts forever and love lasts for less than the blink of an eye. I should have made a statue out of water and wind and air.

See that cloud there? Can you see beauty's face in the shape and shadows of the mist? No? Well it has gone now.


The stone statue lasts
Longer than Love. Better a
Venus of the air