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.
Copyright © Romeo Naces | Year Posted 2006
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