Boys by the Road
By Don Iannone

Young boys playing their hearts out
before the sun sets and the stars rise,
Boys filled with overwhelming eagerness for life,
Wild, out of control, intoxicated,
Lusting, after adventure,
Dreaming, about far away places,
Hoping, someday they will visit,
Boys pretending to be men pretending
to be supermen who need not pretend anymore,
Boys playing along side a dusty country road,
Hoping this road in life will lead them
to new roads they can discover before
they grow old and can no longer run for miles
in the hot afternoon summer sun.