The modern day Triathlon bypassed the Greeks of old

and their noble thoughts of brotherly love,

instead naked wrestling

was the order in which men were tested;

but is such a hit

in the modern world that thousands take to it

out of sheer desperation

as their country wages war on the ordinary

athlete, swimmer, long distance walker

and they gather their families close

to their hearts and wave goodbye

across crested waves to a world that

doesn’t want them

and wave hello to a continent