If this doesn’t get you pumped for Croke Park 2015, nothing will
Fair play to Irish poet and blogger Daithí O’Connor for penning/typing this superb piece about UFC star Conor McGregor and his inexorable rise to a likely tilt at the featherweight title – hopefully in Dublin – next year.
A Warrior Awaits
A shadow cast on eight, the sides of test and tradition;
A warrior awaits.
Darkness, strobes, music and noise;
The change in tune, the tact in tone, always calm.
Emerging in strides, superior and significant;
Bare skinned, bearded, braided and born.
Tattooed and untainted, capped and comfortable;
a celebration of confidence and indulgence in honour.
A right hand raised, an emblem to roars;
the approval all round answers acceptance to accolades.
The face of focus; fuelled, ferocious and physical.
Relaxed and relishing raucousness’, a revelling renewed in expected conquest.
Surrounded by stalwarts, saluting strength in their standing;
the goal always glorious, the going a grateful gift.
A fighter famed on feeding fiercely on the fallow; a freak of fearlessness inside the fence. [continues below….]
The pride pronounced previous to participation, a publicity in positivity and persistence;
A prize proudly personal and a promise… to his own person.
Bold and brash, a champion challenging collective conclusions of characters contained.
The tribal triggering, tastefully targeting those testing the temperament;
trials always trumpeted, a top flight performer present not to take part, but only to take over.
Inspiring, the self-respected ruthlessness that raises rancour;
Rushing relentlessly in triumph, an Irish artist, flawless, fine-tuned and firm.
Sweating in supremacy, selfishly succumbing to the stalks of success;
second to none in notions that nurture the needs of a nation,
No nonsense negotiations; ‘I will win. I will win’.
The calculated carnage, the bellows of belief;
The narrow aisles, the path to righteous inevitably.
A warrior awaits, but not in the shadows.
The beaming light with eight sides around him;
Ready, zealous and namely, Notorious.
*Check out O’Connor’s Reeling in the Fears blog here
