[ELPENOR]
Maybe we should leave him
[ODYSSEUS]
What?
[ELPENOR]
Look at how he sleeps
Look at how he’s smiling
It’s the first real one in weeks!
You don’t know him like I do
Which is why you’d be perplexed
If you knew how he would hide the truth
That deep down he was depressed
[ATHENA]
Don’t let him convince the other men
[ODYSSEUS]
So what? Are we supposed to abandon
Those who are hurting? Desert them?
Leave ‘em out to burn when words are not working?
[ELPENOR]
No, we support them howеver they need
We lеt them be happy and free
[ODYSSEUS]
It’s not my job to make him happy!
It’s my job to bring him home!
[ELPENOR]
How do you know he hasn’t found it?
We shouldn’t make him have to go!
[ODYSSEUS]
Well maybe I’m a monster!
Maybe I’m in the wrong!
Maybe I’m the problem
That’s been hiding all along!
I’m a slave to my ambition!
A prisoner of my drive!
And I have got this mission
And I cannot compromise!
And you’ll just have to cope with that