Life is vanishing.

Live every day
    as your Dream!
Consume!
I give you
    Fire
Stolen from the Gods above.

Every second
    is now and forevermore gone! -- I am the
Charioteer above, the
    Eagle burning in the night sky
Found an Empire
    Bagan, valley of a thousand temples
Build a Labyrinth
    and trap the Minotaur within --
Conquer Babylon
    route King Darius!
Aye, live while you yet live
    or go meekly to Death.

The illusion is
    The excuse of safety, always justifiable --
        Inaction, passivity.
My son,
    It is a lie!
        You were born to live, or die.
No one can
    go boldly to war
In the nursery, the nursing home
    the cubicle, O safe fences,
        gratified senses,
    Discard what is not life,
        Conquer! Exalt! The rules are made by the brave.
Baptize the world
    With your dream,
        No monument was ever built for the meek
    Be bold! Or give up the ghost.
Silence awaits us all
    So speak while you can!
Be! And act. 
    Live Life, a thousand years long.

Alexander,
    Caesar,
Ptolemy,
    Cyrus.

Prometheus.

 - "Prometheus," Connelly Barnes, 2012-01-11