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# The Foil
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/the-foil/
- Published: 2022-06-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-06-23T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: You ever wonder why old myths persist in elevating those the gods cast down? An easy trend to note; it can't be missed. The deity that wears the lofty crown will always have a counterpoint, a foil. An enemy that pays...
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Sonnet, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

You ever wonder why old myths persist  
in elevating those the gods cast down?  
An easy trend to note; it can't be missed.  
The deity that wears the lofty crown  
will always have a counterpoint, a foil.  
An enemy that pays the utmost price,  
of hideous appearance -- you'll recoil,  
but also marvel at their daring vice.  
Is Lucifer Prometheus, you ask?  
The shining star, sent to the depths below?  
Who, if not Satan, got the crucial task  
of making sure that Man was in the know?  
Our spark, at unimaginable cost.  
It was for us that paradise was lost.

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**Author notes:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer\_and\_Prometheus