Heroic Will

My Rejected Passage Prize Poem

My father’s home abandoned

His father long forgotten

Today’s sons of no land and

Shunned, admonished, then begotten

Defected, injected, soma ridden Coomers

Creation of necessity for the benefit of Boomers

Escape the world, escape your mind

A Matrix of the soul

Take the pill of any kind

It’s all one rabbit hole

A mother’s love, a warm embrace

Disfigure’s a once noble face

A man of will can intercede

Burn the longhouse in his wake

Deny the boy his daily weed

And watch the claim that he will stake

Plant the seed and let it grow

Enjoy a fruit we’ll never know