A Short and Excessively Belated Poem for The Band That Largely Defined My Middle School Existence

A belated ode
To my lips does come
For Five Iron Frenzy
And All they’ve done

They played ska punk
Of the Christian sort
And to my life
They held great import

During seventh grade
And part of eighth
No other band
To me seemed so great

With songs about Canada
And Different Strokes
Not even to mention
Their witty jokes

In every song
They used horn parts
Such sweet melodies
That stirred my heart

But one dark day
The news arrived
That FIF
As a band had died

But with no such drama
As Lynyrd Skynyrd
They said, “God has called us elsewhere”
It twisted my innards

How could a kind God
Be oh so cruel
and take this solace
from my daily gruel

I was aimless for days
Like a ship in a storm
But I soon realized that their last two albums were not very good anyway
And things returned to the norm

Still to this day
Their tunes light up my face
Check them out
Here is their myspace