Leaps and Bounds
REDEMPTION FOR SOMETHING
THAT MEANS SOMETHING
ONLY TO THOSE WHO ARE INVOLVED
BOWING BEFORE MEN WHO
WISH YOU TO SEE THEM AS SUPERIOR
WHETHER YOU ARE BETTER OF BEST
BEYOND THE FEATS OF STRENGTHS
BEYOND THE RECOGNITION OF
A PAST THAT MADE YOU GREAT
THEY THOUGHT HIM BEATABLE
THEY REFUSED TO RECOGNIZE
HIS LUSTER
THEY SPOKE OF HIM AS DULL AND UNADMIRIBLE
THEY HONED THEIR SKILLS TO COMPETE
BUT SPOKE HIM AS A NOTHING
AND FIGURED HIM TO BE BENEATH THEM
WHAT CHARISMA HAS HE THAT THOSE
WHO WISH APPEAL FROM MASCULINITY FINDS HIM
UNWANTED AND UNEXCITING
CRAWL BEFORE THOSE WE WISH TO BED
AND LABOR TO BE DEFEATED AS THEY ARE WISER
TO LOVE THOSE WHO LOVE THEM
YET THEY SPEAK OF HIM CHORING FROM BOUT TO BOUT
AND HIS LABOR NON-INSPIRING
THOSE PAST GREATNESSES SEK
FOLLOW-UP AND THOSE
WHO WISH HIM IN OPPOSITION
DO SO TO STRENGTHEN THEIR OWN NEEDS FOR
ADMIRATION AND ATTENTION
WHAT NIGHTS AHEAD HIM
THAT HIS DAY OF WRECKING SHALL FIND HIM
TO BE SEEN AS BETTER THAN OR BEST
MIGHT EACH CHALLENGE FIND HIM
TO ONE DAY LIVE OUT THAT DREAM
HIS BODY HAS MADE HIM AFFORD
MIGHT THE GREATEST WORDS
EVER SPOKEN BE ABOUT HIS LABORS
THAT HE IS BEST
AND THOSE WHO HAS OPPOSED HIM
HAVE DONE SO THAT THEY ARE EQUALLY GREAT OR BEST
Copyright © Allan Terry | Year Posted 2019
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