Unsportsmanlike

Growing up playing sports 
I was raised to compete
Confront face to face 
not hide and seek
it’s unsportsmanlike 
to slyly sneak

If you haven’t played sport 
that word may lack meaning 
it teaches you to play fair
not behind backs meanly 

Teaches you teamwork, you play with all sorts,
teaches you to lead and learn from faults
it teaches you it's not all about me, and of course
teaches lessons untaught too dorks 

Makes you honest, fair and respectful 
Makes you up front, letting know, so all equal
makes slander look pathetically deceitful 
Those are ways of weak feeble people
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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