Gladiator - Poetry - Lakeside Park

Gladiator

What have I been but this beast
caged by me and released by them
as surely as if i were a lion
tame to the ways of the arena
rest in a cell
tear into flesh
life is death
and the only word i had for them was 'friends'...


Mix imagination and reality in large bowl. Add a liberal amount of hyperbole and bake 1 minute at 98.6 degrees.


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