This is how you feel the flow of fire,
as it pulls you taut and graceful in stadium lights.
Blare down at the brass instruments, bellowing the
final tidal note over grass and green as laurel leaves.
Catching sharpened metal in your wrists,
painless and slick, the world is drenched in
Red and black team spirit –
Death and passion is how we paint our face.
keep us on our feet, the push and the win.
Skin and candy across a thousand feet while the
wind whistles the melody to a finite,
climatic “amen”. Metal tip to sky,
We all fall down.
There is no heartbeat, the crowd is sinking.
Funeral murmurs breathe into the smoke, for in all this cacophony
who could hear the sound of gunshot clapping?
