Fallen From

I tell you I've no use
mind removed
ideas confuse
compare to
a sports team seen
consecutive relegations 
the changing scenes
cause debts and frustration 
a one way street
in season repetition 

Down one league 
Down two
should be the big fish
but at this level new
and unfathomed twist
see us screwed
unsecure

State of the art home ground 
3 or 4 times larger than
small clubs going all out making victory harder 
They want to win this trophy fixture 
we’re a club shouldn’t be in the mixture
unanticipated failure too fall here

Away games on pitches not so well kept 
effects ball control then mindset 
kind of test we know of less
empty stands and those left stress 
as all resources overstretch 

Once a giant national name
now a forgotten has been team
slow to adapt mishap lose game
now left are memories and no chance dreams 

And though this place has more to offer 
it stays potential an idea by logic 
theories of gold when here is copper 
can’t begin when heads keep dropping 

players now have half the fitness
lower standard faults to witness 
contract offers unattractive
no one new and the skilled have left
and though all in all collapsed in 
I’m still not done
survive no surrender 
kill shots in my gun 
alive in splendour

Bullets are few can’t fire at will
clip pull by decision not haste
need skill nothing to waste must focus
find vision strong will hope for hocus pocus

but I am not a sports club
I'm a person and this comparison
serves no purpose above 
explanation for you so still 
I'm half undone half done
making sense of what has come
the road ahead dark and glum

clueless no use and confused
stunned by madness in shock
so stuck I'm amused
tombstone will read
came unglued
and played to lose

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019



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