Sometimes
(tossed on the waves
crashing on the shores)

Vampiric Goddesses
imbibing his mortality

(sometimes he would hear
the battlecry of
fallen soldiers
storming the walls

catch a glimpse of Hector's
shield flashing in the distance)

almost drowning
almost consumed by monsters
the best of his crew
the best men he ever knew

dead or gone
gone home so long ago

fair Achilles resting with the
gods somewhere

Time crushing his heart
Titans battering him from
all sides

Nothing but the promise
of home

(someday reaching home)