Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Born by a human, with the fire inside of the gods


Heracles did you stay beyond your time
From an age of heroes and gods
Instead to the common, and mundane
Ignoring the world about you
Growing more scholarly
Growing less attached
To the godly truths
Heracles did you know
Your blood is woven within
The veins of a mortal
For Alexander the Great
Lay proper claim
To the godflesh's legacy
Beneath a great banner
Bearing the name of a king
You Achilles
Great oh great warrior
You of the gods' blood
You are invincible
With a heart that burns
For war
Did you know, Oh Achilles
That your blood
Pumps in the heart of a lion
Alexander bears your presence
In a heart far too great
For any mortal's blood
For eternity you will live
Oh Achilles, magnificent warrior
Your wrath led you to ruin
But the child of Philip, of one eye
Will soon conquer the world
Making the claim of empire
From Syracuse to India
And far beyond