
Mario Mainland
The Fighter
Updated: Jun 2, 2022
He is down for the count
he is down
and somewhere something's gone wrong,
in the notes of child's
melancholy song
and my soliloquy to the gods
-I said:
show us and
save us and
heal all our souls,
before her voice fades,
before he hits the canvass,
before it's me,
for whom the bell tolls...
And now the fighter
falls to his knees,
hypnotized by the words the canvass breathes:
When the strong are gone,
and only the meek remain,
Become the hero,
become the one
before the bravest of us
have to go.