I find life often so represented by sports

The interwoven reliance of European football

With still the individual spotlight of baseball

The perseverance and small victories

As essential to life as it is to basketball

The dreary monotony, through it fine-tuned determination

So crucial to the trade of a runner

Often though one quarterback may lead the play

The receiver will score the winning touchdown

And neither is forgotten

Yet this idyllic portrait

Is not to ignore the dissenting voices that scream

of the goalie who dives in vain as time expires

the cleanup batter strikeout with runners on

But when all is said and done

and considered

and analyzed

Sports provide a nice summation

Of such a wonderful

and terrible

and complex thing

As life itself