Underdogs and Antiheroes

I like underdogs and antiheroes
I like them more than winners
and heroes.

I like seeing losers become
winners and the unlikely
become heroes.

I love the movies where they
are uplifted and glorified.

It’s wonderfully inspiring to see
characters like many, or most,
of us prevail in the challenges
and hard times of life.

Maybe I like underdogs and antiheroes
because I was an underdog in high school
and some teachers thought I end up
in jail because I was so troublesome.

Maybe because I proved them wrong
never spent a day in jail, never
committed a crime.

Spent the remainder of my work
history like an underdog reborn as a
nobler dog

for decades helping numerous
elderly people with their needs,
consoling them and brightening their
waning and often sad days.

But whatever the reason why, I’ll
always be rooting for underdogs
and antiheroes.

Bob Boyd

Author: BobBoyd

Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-) View all posts by BobBoyd