Head

"Use your head," they say...

bloody and sore, it's tired.
I stay with the test
Skin and bone against bloody concrete

until one of us (me) is bested
And retires from the game.

Years later I realize the test
of head pushed hard and hard again
will never win
against concrete's physical abuse

or mental gain
win
when
a thinking game is used to take the place
of spirit and juice:

the soul's main frame