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After the dust

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Tears from the ups
Tears from the downs
Old contracts reworked
New contracts still printer warm.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Club budgets
Looked at in a new light.
Those to go,
Those to stay.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Empty stands
Carry the echoes of the season.
Ghosts of games past
Linger like early autumn mist.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 The league struggle,
The Cup games,
Now nothing
But a hole in time.

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 The pitch can breath again.
It has the summer to itself.
Just it and the groundsman,
At one with each other.

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 Those going down chase parachutes.
The new boys
Get their Stadia hard wired
For the box in the corner.

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 After the dust has settled,
Life begins anew
As clubs adjust
To their altered state.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/after-the-dust/