'Eros'

Anteros is the god of true love, mature love, the kind of love that lasts eons and will be written among the stars. Eros is not the god of love; he is the god of getting drunk before noon and having sex five nights a week with different people at different bars. He is the god of staying up at night and nursing old wounds that refuse to heal and the god that I identify with most when I've been awake since 3 in the morning planning a poem.