BOY TO MAN
There is a boy
who is told
not to put his hand in the furnace
else he'll burn it
again.
I am that boy
grown older
- no wiser -
but sadder
and yet
despite it all
still hopeful
that this time
I'll feel the fire milder,
be more calloused,
be cooler, calmer
in the face of disaster.
Older am I,
from boy to man,
- though no wiser -
but just as wishful
far a less heated future.
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