A Leading Man

This is the story of a boy
Who became a man
Who became a man
Again, and again and again

He began as an boy,
Drawing pictures,
Writing stories with his friend
He ended as a man who
Had come to cross roads
In two lives, two viable
Deliberate lives.

He began as a boy,
Drawing pictures
He became a young man
At the bottom of the heap
He became a young man,
Who unlike other young men around him,
Could compromise,
Could swallow his pride,
Who knew what it took,
To move ahead in life,
No matter what.

He became later,
Two different men,
In two different worlds
At the same time.
Neither one had contact
With one another,
Only circumstance
Could cast the die
Best two out of three.