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S1EP2: Just A Man
<p>[Haiku]</p><p>Hands shake as I hold</p><p>A future lost to shadows</p><p>"I'm just a man," I plead</p><p><br/></p><p>So...</p><p><br/></p><p>Zeus wanted the boy dead. The infant. The one the prophecy said would grow up to destroy everything we'd fought for.</p><p><br/></p><p>And he wanted me to do it.</p><p><br/></p><p>I remember standing there, looking down at this tiny, helpless thing. He didn't know who I was. Didn't know his father had died by my sword, that his city was burning because of a horse I built. He just... looked at me. Like I was supposed to protect him.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I thought about my son. Telemachus. Barely a year old. Waiting for me at home with Penelope.</p><p><br/></p><p>What kind of father would I be if I killed another man's child?</p><p><br/></p><p>What kind of king would I be if I didn't?</p><p><br/></p><p>I begged the heavens. I asked them — what makes a man? Is it mercy? Is it strength? Is it doing what's necessary, even when it tears you apart inside?</p><p><br/></p><p>They didn't answer.</p><p><br/></p><p>They never do.</p><p><br/></p><p>Let me show you what it felt like.</p><p><br/></p><p>---</p><p><br/></p><p><em>[</em><em>Haiku]</em></p><p><em><br/></em></p><p><em>Hands shake as I hold</em></p><p><em>A future lost to shadows</em></p><p><em>"I'm just a man," I plead</em></p><p><br/></p><p>---</p><p><br/></p><p>That's what I told myself. I'm just a man.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not a monster. Not a god. Just a man trying to get home to his family.</p><p><br/></p><p>But here's the thing about choices — they don't disappear once you make them. They follow you. They haunt you. They crawl under your skin and whisper to you in the dark.</p><p><br/></p><p>I dropped the boy from the walls.</p><p><br/></p><p>And I told myself it was fate.</p><p><br/></p><p>I told myself the gods made me do it.</p><p><br/></p><p>I told myself I was just a man.</p><p><br/></p><p>But somewhere in the back of my mind, a question was already forming — one I wouldn't be able to answer for a very long time:</p><p><br/></p><p>If you do something monstrous... does it make you a monster?</p><p><br/></p><p>Poseidon seemed to think so.</p><p><br/></p><p>And he was about to make sure I never forgot it.</p><p><br/></p><p>Epic the musical: The TROJAN SAGA.</p>
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