Ten rounds with darkness

A stutter of traffic noise
and the day’s begun,
like a left jab from Muhammad Ali,

There’s no sitting ringside
no waiting around,
it’s time to get up and get at them,

for when you’re not sparring
you’re fighting,
and when you’re not fighting
you’re moving,
and when you’re not moving
you’re there with your hopes,
alone on the ropes.

So at the end of these grudge match days,
when this modern, mechanical world,
gives you permission to hit the sack,
don’t sleep soundly my friend,
go ten rounds with darkness.



©️ Lathen Griffiths 2023

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

maybe the rope-a-dope is the answer to surviving nights...
no sleep but at least we might last the ten rounds.
j.

[Lathen Griffiths]

Very true.

Lathe.