Sunday, June 5, 2016

the boxer

the boxer

The Boxer 

 




  He had the saddest eyes I have ever
seen
 
hands trembled like a drunkard`s
 
after a fortnight's  bender but a dipsomaniac
 
can always have another drink
 Ali could not Parkinson`s disease saw to that
 This poet of the ring a victim of success
 egged on too long, just another fight my love
 Honours and medal they bestowed him
 it came too late his voice was but a whisper
 In the glade butterflies fly as he once did
 but not as fast as Mohammed Ali.



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