To Fight A Beast Poem by Anthony Goodall

You called out my name
And singled me out
I grit my teeth
And felt my heart beat
At first I was afraid
When I measured you out
So tall and wide
No time to have doubt

You came at me first
With all your might
You knocked to the ground
But to your surprise
I was not beat
I gasped and bled
But I was not dead

I gathered my strength
As you circled around
You hit me hard
With a thunderous sound
Once again
I went down

At that moment
When I lay on the ground
I knew in my hear t
That I was beat
But I was a boy
When you beat me down
Beaten and busted laying on the ground
But now I am a man, big and wide
And I drink to your bones
Because you are in the ground……..