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fighter

A fighters tale

Hand is sore now
don’t feel good
Don’t want to go
another twelve
On the stool now
and glad to be

Look what fighting done for me

Head butts hurt
he looks so strong
Can’t get a glove
on him
He moves so fast
it’s hard to see

Look what fighting done for me

Trained so hard
time on the bag
Counting hours
until we fight
Inside the ring
is where I’m free

Look what fighting done for me

The bell rings
and it starts again
Do they see
how I hurt inside
As my punches
pass their vanity

Look what fighting done for me

push push
punch breath punch
push breath
punch see 
head to head
punch duck

Can't see what fightings done for me

So the last bell
it starts to ring
And they rush
to claim our night
We get left with
the revere

Look what fighting done to me

 

 

 

 

— Roscoe Lane, Dec 21, 2009

About the Author

Region, Country: Scotland, Ayrshire land of Burns.., GBR

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weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 5 months ago

and....?

where is this going? Poetry is about compression. Cheers, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible [my new avatar is my skin with tattoo, kookaburra dive bombing with lit TNT in beak]
Roscoe Lane

Roscoe Lane

16 years 4 months ago

Maybe i've failed

Maybe i've failed in your eyes, as i was trying to get some feeling of the action. Sorry if it does not please. Roscoe....

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