All About Sports and Healing

Sports, yes sports,
Sometimes it’s all about it.
Basketball
Dunking, slashing, scoring.
Football
Hiking, spiking, again scoring.
That’s always the objective,
Get the ball in the basket, the end zone
And baseball?
Home run, triple, double, single,
Everybody wants to tough ’em all!
Hockey
Skating, brawling, fore-checking,
Just brutal, like boxing,
Punching, punishing, face and rib smashing.
Horse racing
And down the stretch they go!
That’s the moment of peak.
Once there was Seattle Slew and Secretary,
Even a Funny Cide in 2003,
Great horses, thoroughbreds.
Golf
Nine-iron, two-putt, five-wood,
Play with them all.
Legends of the game
Arnie, Jack and some people think Tiger,
A black man with poise, touch,
Once unbeatable.
Sports, yes sports,
Tennis, back and forth,
Aces, forehand, backhand winners
A sport often dominated by Serena and Venus,
Black power, black beauty.
Sports, yes sports,
Gotta love swimming, bathing suits.
Yes baby … bathing suits.
Gotta hate wrestling, simply fake, insanity overflow.
Arm wrestling, only the strong win.
Sports, yes sports,
Often bringing a nation together, the world at peace.
If only during the Olympics and overwhelming tragedy
Like 9-11, the outbreak of war.
People die.
Sports are there to revive
Fuel the soul.
Presidents, kings, queens, prime ministers,
All leaders who fill stadiums
Creating the outbreak of cheers
Like Montana and Rice, Mike and Scottie
49ers and Bulls, Steelers, Cowboys, Celtics, Lakers,
All champions, great at one time.
Sports, yes sports,
Ever played ’em?
You will be amused, bruised, sometimes confused
But you will enjoy more than enough thrills.
Sports, yes sports,
Entertainment known for sending your body into chills.
© 2005 byAndre D. Williams