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Let Us Compare Mythologies

Eddie Gibbons

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 What happened here today
will turn into mythology,
and in the melancholy air
of some misty Saturday,
the whistle now blowing
will become a symbol
of something precious lost.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 There will be an adjustment
of hopes; folklore and old songs
will fuse together,
and be retold as
dim recollections,
bleak consolations
for the dark days ahead.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 See, someone will say,
it’s almost visible:
the scuff of grass
where he placed the ball-
the brief union
of boot and history,
shooting into immortality.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/let-us-compare-mythologies/