by Luke McGinty
Tension boiled stress
caught in youthful throats
before emboldened thoughts fly free
toiled quickly, burning out
in expectation and repression of
Ambitious premade lives
cloying culture driving towards perfection
pillars lofted above and below
holding the status quo in place
driving the maybe youthful rat race
in the near not beating hearts of
Young men so tamed and so beaten
over a lifetime, from birth, into submission
free beasts, maimed and pampered
carved like stone
as faulted flesh
and flawed beautiful heart, soul, bone
is scarred to stoic, solid, unerring, unmoving
marble
poised, nobled and ruined
above the rest looking in jealousy of them
who trade humanity for supposed dignity as
Testament to the merits of a life
spent spurning the human ice and animal fire
that make a man
shape his fate
and fuel his passion
in the dark of night
and the winter of life
dead now too soon in the halls of
A place, mulling once with laughter
then not long after
ringing with
a morgue silence
Love this. You go Luke !