6901 - The promethean enthusiasm

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Evi Charitidou

Certain commentators
do not see the promethean enthusiasm
of Leonardo Da Vinci
despite the thousands of sheets
full of his thoughts.
They settle for imagining
the Master of Renaissance
as a naked man
facing the social upheaval
which he could not control.
In reality they observe
Prometheus Bound
and they deduce
that this Titan
would be incapable
of stealing the sacred fire.