Your name isn't Hercules,
is it?
How about Atlas,
Achilles,
Odysseus,
Perseus.
You are not Hero.
You are not God.
You are a single piece in a link of chain-
useless,
idle,
insignificant without the bond of the other pieces.
If you push against these bonds,
if you condemn yourself with your own strength,
bury yourself in a sea without currents,
you are digging yourself a deeper grave
with no one to pull you out of it.
You will have no one,
and you will be no one.
So listen.
You are not Hercules,
you are not Atlas,
you are not Achilles,
you are not Odysseus,
you are not Perseus,
You are only human.

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Emanations Of The Heart
PoetryΞ if actions speak louder than words why is the pen mightier than the sword Ξ