This One's For Donovan
the underdog becomes the wolf
in a shocking turn of events
yet not of his own volition
'you are finally a man' they say
but he does not agree
he is a boy, plucked from a childhood
and thrust into survival
but here
they call it adulthood
they call it becoming a man
and he doesn't understand
he's clawed his way through ruins
with his own two hands
his own bloody knuckles
and razor sharp teeth
he's drilled holes in skulls
that carried weapons in the form of actions
he has learned from an early age
that some boys cannot become a man
unless they kill a few
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