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A Difference Of Opinion!

kevin raymond

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Yep! It happened to me, I stood there and cried
I put it over the crossbar, as the goalkeeper dived
All me team-mates went missing,
As the other team hugged and kissed,
One another, after beating us on penalty kicks

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 The ground wouldn’t open, liked I prayed that it would
I stood there a broken kid, hopeless, no good
Me old man came up, saw me sad and distraught
“Jaysus boy, don’t be crying, it’s just football, that’s all”

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 “Sorry dad, you’re wrong, it’s not just football, as you say
If it was… just, do you think I’d be feeling this way?
We had victory in sight, it was there in our grasp
I could smell and taste it, now it’s gone, it is past”

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 As I sadly trudged over to the dressing room
The rank smell of defeat was within
All I could see was red eyes, anger and gloom
From me team-mates who’d knocked their spot kicks in

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 In a couple of hours, it blew over like showers
Gone and young life carried on
Me old man and me never spoke of it again
That day, when I told him…. you’re wrong

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 There were other bad days, hard fought wins and great games
When you just shrug yer shoulders and sigh
But when that first one goes wrong, and it’s your shoulders it’s on
There ain’t nothing to do, but just…..cry!

© kjp raymond 2007

Notes

This is about a day where and me dad and me had a slight difference of opinion over me, taking me sport, all a little bit too seriously.

But hey, when you’re a kid you want to be on the side that’s winning, all the time, don’t yer?

Later on in life I found out for myself that it’s not always about winning and you can’t be on the side that’s winning…. always!

Especially if you follow Chelsea like me, whose motto, amongst us true blue fans, used to be “The only thing consistent about us, is our er um inconsistancy”!

Really interesting topics that the eds have picked out for new poems, so fair play to them for that.

peace

kev

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/a-difference-of-opinion/