They say there exists a boy
inside every man, his child self
from before the burdens of the
world weighed him down.

I say there exists a man in every boy,
his future self that lends him strength
in times dire, when he must fight or flee
from a wayward dog or shellings of war.

And there exists the time of transition,
the great shift coded into his very DNA,
where he grows out from free form of...