Achilles' Elegy

My Patriocles, what have I done to you? 

How have I abandoned you in your hour of need, 

And saved myself at your expense? 

When I discovered the news of you, my heart broke into two; 

To the gods, I asked your life be returned in exchange for mine, I plead 

In the cries and roars most intense. 

And to this day, I swear, I shall never find someone new 

And no matter how absent in may be, your touch I will always need, 

For the absence of it shall be my penitence.