Sean wrote this poem for his Inside Out writers class. Invictus means unconquerable and was a poem written by William Ernest Henley in 1875. Sean wrote his own rendition of it. 

My Invictus

In the nightmare that holds me

Enduring with no end

My faith gives me strength

An unconquerable soul

At just 16 my nightmares consumed

In 17 more I have not wavered

Mine innocence will shine through

Despite the toil and toll

Others do not know what is

For they see naught other than surface

The pain and sacrafice brought forth

will find me unyielding

In unjust blindness that consumes all

my rightful liberty has been denied

In am more than circumstance unbending

I will prevail

Written by Sean O’Brien for Inside Out Writers Group