Hail Fallen Corbett

I saw the shattered face of a man once his world before me died in his eyes the incumbent fires were so dim forgotten in the eyes of pleasure That mattered more to him than everything no woman, no fights, arm wrestling nothing of such masculine victory another pill for the fallen king Arms, blood, muscle, hair, and skin death to youth, death in silence the pain crawled away and left him there drowning in the eyes of his offspring Grandfather, your bloody nose is red i have seem your stories and love faces and times are all his age has left love is the only thing to coddle from an estranged man Forget this the night when the world is cold leave mother’s heart to the worms pray you this what God hath foreseen Grandfather, your tufted sod will be remembered