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
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