I wrote this poem about a tragic moment in Athena’s life, of which there were many. It is in the form of a Horatian ode, written in quatrains of alternating rhyme composed of three lines in Trochaic tetrameter with each quatrain ending in dimeter. The goddess’ heart is far more complicated than surficial readings of Classical mythology dare reveal. But the subtext—as with all matters—is where truths hide.