Mark





we found this world together

cold

hard

and

unforgiven

we ran their gauntlet laughing

through the scholarship in hell

sunbrowned

musclebound

farm boys both

unsoiled

unspoiled

sons

dragged

screaming

from our soil

yet we never broke our oath

with a shrug for each scathing

and a fist for the pompous

we played their rich boy mind games

and we trashed their school and won

but your own fight

was no away game

so you took your life

with his gun



I carved your name in gritstone

high on the Windgather

where only Ravens read it




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