Ex-Wrestler In a Nursing Home
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Boulder shoulders, bursting biceps,
terrifying to see,
A menacing mountain of a man, well,
he used to be.
He would brutally barrel through each
frightened, fleeing foe.
Many still fear him so, although that
was long, long ago.
Now, from beneath the bony, bushy
brows of his frayed face,
He casts a ghostly gaze at his veins,
I.V. needles in place.
His shrunken, skeletal frame sinks
stolid in the stretcher.
His skin, the tinge and touch of the back
of a peeled wallpaper.
Here he must wait and wilt away the weeks
till the end arrives.
Behind this nursing home's closed doors hide
closing and closed lives.
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Copyright © Romeo Naces | Year Posted 2011
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