Laureates

what are heroes

for even heroes die,

our muses

sport literature fashion music et al

their legacies are the well laid paths

upon which we strew our laurels

while eternally suckling their milk

from our pan-voracious world,

we copy we follow we style

we hum their hypnotic tunes,

we dress alike we recite their words

refusing to let them pass

even as they fade to vague,

become smoke disparate wraiths

we hold them up admire them

and shake out their final grains of magic,

for we the watchers readers listeners

didn’t climb our own Olympus,

when we had the chance

Published by grahamrsherwood