Even Aphrodite is an object to you? A goddess that lays ahead of us all curated In marble out of the hands of hundreds of men Worshipped by the thousands of women and children Why do you perceive beauty in a frail eye or a possession of your own And yet the βprivate partsβ of hers were carved out of holy marble for the male gaze to seek and consume Because no beauty and lust came without the loss of innocence Never mind the power she held You still stripped her down And looked Grinned