The Boxer

I am a boxer
I have spent my life in sin
There's a price for pride and honor
There's a cost for weighing in

I am a boxer
Armored with a shattered heart
No desire for redemption
No attention to my scars

I am a boxer
I have broken many bones
Though I've slept in many places
I have never called them home

I am a boxer
I have taken many lives
Leaving children without fathers
Taking husbands from their wives

I am a boxer
Black and blue from self-defense
Sutures hold my faith together
Iron cools my loneliness

I am a boxer
Who has never learned to cry
Though I've never been a champion
I have fought for all my life