蜜芽传媒

Honour

I thought
to boil

it down,
to lava it

but there wasn鈥檛
enough silver

sparkling
on the medal

to mould
the impossibly

brilliant plaque
for my father鈥檚

unglamorous
grave.

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Before the acceptance, my father
spoke in a dream, said say yes

but don鈥檛 take it so serious.
He laughed like a fire

full of pips at the thought
of his son鈥檚 royal remaking.