David Beckham - Much-maligned, majestic, minted and misunderstood
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Brazen bespoke blessed brilliance
brimful of burnished bygones
Ethereal endeavour embellished in Eden
evocative emotional - England expects
Contemporary centrefold cool calibration
compelling compulsive classic control
Kickback kick-off killer ball king
knee-jerk knife-edge karma kudos
Haircut habitat half-time half-truth
head-on hostility heart throb hysteria
Absolute ability ammunition ablaze
alice band agitprop aspersions aplomb
Much-maligned majestic minted misunderstood
measured metatarsal milestone Manchester
With cloth cut accordingly and eye cut on the bias
and ruddy-faced complexions stoking antagonistic fires
an indellible imprint is left upon the turf
now the man's packed his kitbag, his sense of worth
in confusion, disillusion - more sinned against than sinned
but the only visible holes are from where hopes have been pinned
heading north, the prodigal son returns to his spiritual home
carefully wrapped in a whiter shade of pale
blissfully immune to the new strain of hysteria
those organised games of faults versus virtues
a fast-fading memory
blown away like confetti in the wind
beneath his own constellation
the brilliantly articulated statements
from well outside the box
the golden diagonal balls
and the cross that rocks
where are you now the talking wounded?
your mass produced criticism spectacularly misplaced
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