Romeo Naces Poet Free verse

Intrams Overall Champ

even if its yellowing years in the slowly settling dust
     have dimmed much of its previous, glorious lustre,
          which, in times olden, 
               must have been 
                    golden,

still like a proud monarch standing akimbo,
     it haughtily proclaims to the noonday sun that it still is
          the much coveted prize, 
               the blinding 
                    obsession

for which the young, hot-blooded multitude caught
     in the hysteria of campus contests fought and cheated,
          booed and cheered, shrieked and 
               wept,  won and 
                    lost;

now quietly it leans on a heap of rubbish in the rubble
     of the old gym - - the 5-foot "Overall Champion" 
          trophy, a relic of a sports 
               season long 
                    forgotten.

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