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An inspiration

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By Shahid AliPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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An inspiration
Photo by Greg Rakozy on Unsplash

YOU can keep your antique silver and your statuettes of bronze,

Your curios and tapestries so fine,

But of all your treasures rare there is nothing to compare

With this patched up, wornout football pal o’ mine.

Just a patchedup wornout football, yet how it clings!

I live again my happier days in thoughts that football brings.

It’s got a mouth, it’s got a tongue,

And oft when we’re alone I fancy that it speaks

To me of golden youth that’s flown.

It calls to mind our meeting,

’Twas a present from the Dad.

I kicked it yet I worshipped it,

How strange a priest it had!

And yet it jumped with pleasure

When I punched it might and main:

And when it had the dumps

It got blown up and punched again.

It’s lived its life;

It’s played the game;

Its had its rise and fall,

There’s history in the wrinkles of that wornout football.

Caresses rarely came its way in babyhood ’twas tanned.

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Shahid Ali

a humble poet

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