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