"A Coach's Unpleasant Surprise"

 

 

 

I journeyed forward

With a false sense of security

My thoughts were nowhere in particular,

And disaster was nowhere in my thoughts

 

Confidence intact through indifference to reality...

 

  Foolishness permeates

As I am reminded how,

In one fleeting moment,

Things could have been different

 

 

 

 

Now, the contemplations grow more vivid:

 

 

 

 

"Perhaps someone more patient;

Someone not as absent-minded

Might have taken the time"

 

 

 

When I'm harsh with myself

(Honest, that is)

I admit that when it comes down to it,

It just didn't matter

 

-Even though it does now

 

 

 

So rather than torment myself further,

I will merely sit

And brood a little more

About the shame...

 

 

The embarrassment...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of being told my zipper was down.

~ The Sports Intellectual

Copyright 2007, Aidan Acuff