Off the Bench

my baseball playing days in Teeners league hardly played my main position was bench by not playing I never had fatigue use to dream of being like Johnny Bench in the navy I wasn’t on the bench I was a star during those times at sea In France I even spoke a little French my time out at sea I truly felt free those days are gone yet I’m reliving them poetry has been that light at the end it has nothing to do with my brain stem I admit this is my life no pretend I have lived on a bench for a few years it felt that way yet I never shed tears