I stopped up my ears 

to not hear the siren call

But temptation it cleared 

now I hear them all.

Tied to the mast

My telos at last

I long for them

I am fighting for my end

Two roads diverged 

In a dark and moody wood

Which path I should take

Knowing does no good.

Feel this call of your heart

It will tear you apart

The trick of fate

In this Shelob’s web called Faith

Invictus

I chase truth

I’m a sailor on stormy siren seas

Invictus 

I break through

And nothing can stop me

Invictus 

I break through

And nothing 

can stop me

Bloody but unbowed

Though futures but a shroud

A specter mist horizon

Tugged on by the wind

Sails taut our quest begins

Despite the fear that fills the silence….

Invictus

I break through

I’m a sailor on stormy siren seas

Invictus 

I break through

And nothing can stop me

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

      I am the captain of my soul.