One Up

Endured
The surgical table
Awkward
Pant dropping
Get to know ya'
Stick of needles
And manhandling
Manhood ensuring
Such a seed
Never again
Withers
On the wine

If
Our purpose
Like every purpose
Is to see
Ourselves
Watered down
And living on
What does that leave
When
Lives last
As long
As living memory
Following
The after words
All that remains
Are stories

A fitting
And fair
Final chapter
Where the worthy
Find ways
To live forever