King Eurystheus’ Labors

My dear cousin Heracles

You stand before me stained with blood and tears

Your family screams still echo through your nightmares

For the murders that you have done

You now must pay the price

Your time is now mine to sacrifice

Before you get torn for your sin

You must complete ten arduous labors

Make this world safer for your neighbors

The first labor is that you must slay the mean, mean lions eyed

No weapon can pierce that golden armored pride

The second labor, you must make the hydra fall

This monster stands mighty high and tall

Ten labors, you will face to clear your name

Ten labors to erase the blood and shame

From lion's roar to howl on the plain

You'll serve me till you restore your name

The third labor will have you capture

The serenian hide of Artemis, which is so fleet

You'll chase it down with no rest or sleep

The fourth labor involved the Erymandian boar that ravages the land

You'll drag it back alive with your own hand

The fifth labor includes the ancient stables piled with endless dung

A single day

Clean what years have flung

The six labors

The Sinfellian birds will be shot down by your arrows made of steel

The brazen winds will make your body reel

Ten labors

You must cease to clear your name

Ten labors

To erase the blood and shame

From lions roar the cattle on the plain

You serve me

'Til you restore your name

The seventh labor

The bull from Crete you must subdue

That bull will make a show out of you

The eighth labor

You must obtain the mares that feed on human flesh

That were trained by the mad king Diomedes of Phrase

A king who will end your life for anything he deems treasonous

Ninth labor, you must retrieve the girdle of Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons

You won't have long until she decides that a fight is soon to dawn

Tenth labor, you must steal the monstrous giant Geryon's cattle from his might

This will surely be quite the challenging fight

Ten labors, you must face to clear your name

Ten labors to erase the blood and shame

From lion's roar to cattle on the plain

You'll serve me till you restore your name