when the man who opens your eyes takes your name <br />there is no beating the weather <br />the crowd sings, diseased rings <br />tell us all a story we'd rather not hear <br /> <br />Silas, your forest is ridiculous <br />compliant, and therefore overshadowed <br />yet you remain on high; imperious <br />surviving both of your betters in excellence <br />cast in pewter, frozen in stone <br />as I, deserving of a better shell than this <br />stumble dejectedly to my judgment<br /><br />Tanec Rayl<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/playing-a-prominent-role/
