The Journey of a Hero

A world ordinary, so calm and so plain;

I look all around, but it all is the same.

And nothing is special about my own name.

No cloud in the sky on a day without rain.

But something's not right; it's unsettling here.

The call to adventure screams right in my ear.

The future is darkness; the darkness I fear.

My destiny's coming and now it draws near. 

I will not do this; I refuse my own call.

I will not go fight them; my flesh, they will mar.

I will stay right here for out there is too far.

I'm needed right here; and in battle, I'll fall.  

I met an old man and a mentor was he. 

He taught me to fight well and never to flee.

He gave me a sword and a pearl of the sea.

The need of such things he explained I would see. 

Embarked on my own and I came to a wall;

The only door there had a beast standing guard. 

I pulled out my sword and I dealt him his card.

The first threshold crossed and the foe had his fall. 

I faced many tests and I found a few friends;

I called them my allies; my wounds had their mends.

I faced many enemies; they met their ends.

New dangers arriving and moving like winds. 

But there is the cave; I'm approaching it now.

I traveled so that I may come to this place.

Pure evil rests here and it breathes on my face.

The stench is horrific; so strong and so foul.

The battle draws nigh; the ordeal has now come.

A terrible giant; my stature, its thumb. 

Bright light from my pearl and its body goes numb.

I plunge the sword deep, drawing blood mixed with rum. 

The vict'ry is mine just as well as the gold. 

An old book of wisdom, I find it here too.

And pearls like my own, I did gather a few.

Reward is so vast and its equal untold. 

I take the road back, but I don't want to go.

I want to fight one more unbeatable foe.

I take the first steps, and indeed they are slow;

So much I have seen and so much I now know.

I take a bad step and I fall in a pit.

I fall to the bottom; and here I shall die.

But wait, I'm alive; I am starting to fly.

I've been resurrected; my pearl, it is lit. 

Return with elixir of wisdom and bare

The pearls that I gathered and now I do share

My treasure with all; for my people I care.

For each of them faces their own giant's lair.