I placed the ball in your court
But you didn’t pick it up,
After all the matches played,
After all the goals that stayed
In between us one on one -
You didn’t care to finish,
Didn’t care to follow through
To verify that we were done.
There never was enough of
What it takes to drive the game
As if just the finish line,
Or the setting of a time
Constituted expert play -
You didn’t care to step it up,
Didn’t care to go for gold
Or make the outcome go my way.
Look back on all the practice,
Think about the end result,
Was it worth what we invested?
Was there a winner, uncontested?
I’ll remember you, for good sport -
Didn’t care for strategy,
Didn’t care for too much training
Didn’t care much about me.
