Have you seen that man?
He walk alone in the night,
Laughs with others in the light.
Nobody really knows him.
Have you seen how he walks?
He doesn't know where he's going,
He has no one to walk with.
Why is he in this city?
O, and that look. Empty, dead.
Has anyone already seen those eyes?
Has anyone seen where they came from?
Dark as night, hot as death.
Tell me, did you happen to see him?
I do, during the night, the moon was high,
Dreams down to hell. I saw him coming,
Do you know what he said to me?
"You must want, you must be reborn.
I died most of all, And I've been reborn as many times. Do you know my name? It's Eros".
Explanation:
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In the Symposium, Plato narrates of the myth of Eros, born from Poros and Penia. The first one symbolises the ingenious while Penia the ignorance. Eros is a daimon, often translated as demons, but is meaning is of a creature between gods and humans, and whose end is to guide the humans, and even to deliver the gods' messages. As a demon born from Poros and Penia, Eros dies everyday, just to reborn the same day. This to Plato, symbolises the journey of human understanding: we lear new things while we forgot others and the overall knowledge stays often the same. But the most fascinating thing to me, is the concept of the renovation of being that Eros carries with him.
