Mythical safety evaporates, dissolves, suffers. A hundred hopes were needed, yearned for, did hunger. But a thousand blows fall, strike, find. Golden laughter dries, fails, falls under, And summer's tears stream, choke, and blind. Her life's end reaches, accepts and takes.
Illinois boy concedes, surrenders, resigns futile hopes shrugs off, casts away and dashes.
Burning bed swelters, melts, stifles Burning breath labors, sears, distresses. Illinois boy lies, pants, and sweats. Searing breath burns in, burns out, burns yet. Illinois boy sleeps, rests, lives. And unpredictable life, he savors, welcomes, embraces.