This Life We Live [Free Verse Poetry]

Dally

They said he’s hard

Like ROCK

Tuff

They saw the outside

The outside only

Broken, wandering,

A lost soul

Like many

He put up a front

An act

Façade

And they believed it.

He could take anything

E xcept…

Johnny; his roots

What held him there,

Anywhere.

But Johnny left,

So he did too.

He made

That consequential choice

Final

Which he could not take back

Fix

And who’s to tell him not too?