Poem

I’m Not Number 1 for nothing

I HAVE broken many records..

I HAVE destroyed many dreams..

I don’t play for myself

I play for my team

I have over 30 scholarships

From all over the nation

I don’t know where to go

I was told to be patient

I am thinking Georgia

Maybe Tennessee

How about Florida

I would love Miami 

I'm 6 foot 1

225 pounds !

 Muscles as solid as a rock !

No one can stop me now

It is my senior year

We made it to the championship game

I threw over 200 yards

Yea, I should be in the high school hall of fame

Now it is signing day

I have this one college on my mind

I have chosen Alabama

Go Roll Tide !

I’m number 1 coming out of high school

Football is my heart

Without that pigskin in my hands

My life will fall apart

I received a full ride scholarship

Free books AND free education

It did not come with free food or water though

That was not a good creation

The season is almost over

I am runer up for the Heisman !

I did not receive a single dime for my amazing season

That is like stealing money from a blind man

It is the national Championship game

Everyone in the country is EXCITED

My players and I are getting pumped and crazy

As if we are about to start a riot

It is the 3rd quarter

We are winning 21 to 7

Our confidence is high

As high as the clouds of Heaven

The final play was 14 iso

Is that the quarterback sneak?

Before I called hike

I glanced over the line to take a peak

The center snapped me the ball

I caught the ball and was hit in the back

Then the impossible happened

I felt an unusual crack...

I tried to get up

You know, walk it off

But I couldn’t

The feeling in my knee was weak and soft...

WE WON THE GAME

But I lost my football career

Turns out I broke my right leg

My mind and body was full of fear

Everything was getting worst

My life began to go down hill

I could not work due to my broken leg

So I had no money to pay the medical bills!

A year has past

No more football for me...

The closest I get to football

Is watching it on TV

I once was the number one football player

Now I am a sales clerk

Knowing I could have played pro

MAN...the thought really hurts

If I was paid to play

Everything would have been fine

Now I’m in the gutter struggling

To even come up with a single dime!!

I had everything going for me

Everybody was on my side

Then...BOOM...I broke my leg

And ALL my fans left me behind

I BROKE many records

I ONCED pushed all the other players aside

Now I’m just an average man

Fighting for any type of M...O...N...E...Y