The men that won’t return

boys must lose love to become men
for the scene is not for the weak
boys must grind and climb to the peak
or remain nothing in a den.

then they lose life to live again
some do not return from the war
some will never know how to roar
within man is a wave, a lion
the struggle is to make Zion
some men will not make it to shore.

Victor Oyedele