My Escape

My Escape

Dyana Thurgood

This, this is my escape My personal prison break A release from my heartache That follows me like a friend I swear, it never ends Except, except for when I hold This round, leather mold Of my stories all untold It silently, quickly speaks Of my valleys and my peaks That I have traveled through This is what I do "X"s and "O"s in the game Basketball and life- they're one in the same You've got to be smart And set the pace right from the start Or else you will never lead You will brittle up and bleed From the pain of second place Of being runner up in the race I promise you there is no trace Of the person almost good enough Man, isn't life rough? The only sand paper I seem to find Is the one buried inside one's mind The tool to tear down mediocrity And allows a champion to be The last... one ... standing Yup, this is my escape From the prison of within From the average man's acceptance of failure And the elite's demand to win