RESOLUTION

Don't tell me it's impossible -
I will ignore you.
Don't tell me I'm crazy -
I could agree with you.
Don't tell me I live -
My complacency died
When they butchered my friends.
Giving up does not exist,
Despair is not in my vocabulary,
Turning back is inconceivable -
This course is set.
I will tread it all the way
I will tread it all the way
and I will tread it all the way
I will tread it.

Whenever I waver
I see their dead face
accusing me
my dead past
crying Vengeance!
Justice! Liberty!
I will be as ruthless as they
faceless butchers.
This course is set
I will tread it all the way
Back to Earth, all the way.

Don't tell me it's impossible -
I would have told myself first.
Don't tell me I'm crazy -
I would ignore you.
Don't tell me I live -
My complacency died
when she twisted the knife on my folly,
when that madman called me caring,
when I learned his death.
I will prove them wrong:
Logic before hope,
Necessity not emotion,
Success instead of failure.
I shall not fail,
unless failure be fated
and reason cannot counter treachery.
This course is set
Nothing shall turn me from it.
I will tread it all the way
I will tread it all the way
and I will tread it all the way
I will tread it.

If ever I waver -
I will not waver.
My twin goals call me:
to see her face in the dust,
to show myself better than him.
I will be more ruthless than they.
This course is set
I will tread it all the way
Federation, fear that day.

-- Kathryn A