Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Pep Talker




Pep Talker


Clock expires
on yet another
game

scoreboard lights

stoically
impassively
posts 
the numeric story

it's results 
never lie

home team
comes up 
short again

We are defeated
but not beaten

let us resolve
to rise from the 
ashes of 
this disaster

come back
tomorrow


fight again

fight harder

play smarter

take another shot
at the victory


that 

escaped our grasp
today


and be

as gracious 

in victory

as we are
in defeat

1 comment:

  1. This had me thinking about the upcoming Olympics (I'm an Olympic addict) and how hard it is to be graceful in defeat but those athletes so often are and they make me proud no matter the country they come from.

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