Andrew Delapruch Poet Free verse

Juvenilia

know that they’ll love you for the work you do when you’re
young,
that they will embrace the anger, the passion, the want to change the world---
know that they will circle round you like they do
when there is a fight in the public square,
watching the two beat each other senseless, if even to 
death &
then they’ll go about their merry way---
because a life of work means absolutely nothing until you are
dead &
to those that get recognized at all for doing anything anymore
come the glitz & the glam of 
momentary success,
but the rotting comes quick &
like a mole trying to get out of a dog’s concave water dish
with feet scampering up the sides, 
blinded to the reality of its coming 
demise,
the fall is inevitable---
here today & gone tomorrow,
as a leper deteriorating away on an island
far off from the spotlight that started it all.

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Regina Branham May 1, 2012 at 4:33 PM When reading this I at first notice that an apostraphe is needed on the first word 'its' - should be 'it's' and cap the 'I'. I believe you mean to use the word 'are' instead of the word 'or' on the 3rd line. Cap the 'g' in the word 'God' . On the 6th line the word 'there' should be 'their' and the word 'shear' should be 'shed'. the 8th line - 2nd word I think you mean 'it' instead of 'ir'. Hope this helps.