04-17-2014, 11:27 PM
Honoring Ernie
fim 4/17/14
He sensed the turbulence
behind the façade,
the fear beneath the mask.
He offered a treasure
he knew would entice,
deliberately - he did not ask.
He simply stated,
"I'll make you a champion."
His lure teased the part of me,
that possessed the awareness that
exceptionally ordinary
would in-time describe my destiny.
Then he molded rage
and fashioned fear’s fire
to release in staccato bursts
furious fists
designed to damage with deft,
dispensing intolerable hurt.
The promise realized,
five-minutes of fame,
a memory faded by many years
but Ernie's blessing,
my immersion in savagery,
has inured me to most of life's fears
fim 4/17/14
He sensed the turbulence
behind the façade,
the fear beneath the mask.
He offered a treasure
he knew would entice,
deliberately - he did not ask.
He simply stated,
"I'll make you a champion."
His lure teased the part of me,
that possessed the awareness that
exceptionally ordinary
would in-time describe my destiny.
Then he molded rage
and fashioned fear’s fire
to release in staccato bursts
furious fists
designed to damage with deft,
dispensing intolerable hurt.
The promise realized,
five-minutes of fame,
a memory faded by many years
but Ernie's blessing,
my immersion in savagery,
has inured me to most of life's fears