Poets tales will often stray/ As they hyper analyze as they hyperbolize/ Simplify and seek to symbolize/ But lose accuracy along the way/ But these false words often tell us/ More than truth can say/ About the mind behind the lie/ Secrets that lies betray

About Athens fighting force

Against Persians without remorse

Poets, bakers and merchant sons

He claims a sacrifice of Spartans

Forgetting the thousand who stood

Against orders to flee or die

There by Thermopylae

Poets tales will often stray

As they hyper analyze as they hyperbolize

Simplify and seek to symbolize

And lose accuracy along the way

But these false words often tell us

More than truth can say

About the mind behind the lie

Secrets that lies betray

The common sacrifice is ignored

They weren’t nobility so he is bored

Poets, bakers and merchant sons

Weren’t heroes like his Spartans

Helots who against Persia bled

With their orders to fight or die

There by Thermopylae

Poets tales will often stray

As they hyper analyze as they hyperbolize

Simplify and seek to symbolize

And lose accuracy along the way

But these false words often tell us

More than truth can say

About the mind behind the lie

Secrets that lies betray

A tale of warriors of legend

Is the story he wishes to send

Poets, bakers and merchant sons

Weren’t legends like the Spartans

Their tale must fall and die

There by Thermopylae