Beyond the gates

 Out there in pursuit of the best

All desires innate,

Peeping through the bars,

At what lies beyond the gate

If there's no struggle

There's not an inkling of hate

But I've just been working,

I know not what lies in my fate

It takes a true man to rise,

Know not what lurks in the shadows

Takes the truly gallant to surmise,

Its either glory or the gallows.

All hide and cower in denial,

In times of turmoil and trial

Takes the truly valiant

To go the sightless deep.

Not the shallows.