Emptiness Inside

Standing all alone, we watched The winner of the gold,* Who’d skated quite amazingly, Her elegance extolled. Her teammates sobbed and ranted And the cameras caught it all While the winner clutched a teddy bear And listened to them bawl. What should have been her moment By her teammates was denied And when asked her feelings, she described “An emptiness inside.” Disappointment in athletics Is quite common to report, But both doping and sore losing Cast a shadow on the sport. *In the women’s Olympic figure skating event