Hook - What's Yours?

At face value we look in on an extreme initiation challenge. This crazy action is undertaken in order to belong.
I have looked back at the poem though and have considered it as a metaphor describing the discomforts and sacrifices that we make in order to be accepted or loved or affirmed. What's your noose?

Initiation
“Just ten,

Tiptoe for ten.”

The flint gang leader said.

Cold kiss on initiate’s neck

From noose.

Tiptoe

Or slow strangle.

This ten minute’s torment,

Soon sorts out the men from the boys.

Quick noose.

Trembling,

His calves quiver.

His breathing starts to shake.

Gag diverts gasps to nostril’s hiss.

Mean noose.

Rapid

Blowing, sucking,

Rasping through clinging snot,

Forcing through wet mess, his scared breaths.

Tight noose.

Hot tears

Bulging, fearful,

Tremble on eyelid’s edge,

Quaking at its fullest moment.

Cruel noose. 

Trickling,

Escaping tear

Runs downhill for its life,

Curbed and swallowed by the gag.

Brute noose. 

Bubbling,

Foaming mucus

Flaps and sticks to his face.

Dignity is on its last legs.

Vile noose. 

Failing

Muscles weaken.

The hungry coil bites hard.

His blood collides with a dead end.

Smug noose.

Heather Taylor.