BALL THERAPY

And every night for the demise

The letting go of my anxiety

I strap em' up and lay it down

I watch the rubber melt the ground

My heart pulsating every bounce

I'm out of sight and out of mind

Never really been alone

These metal cages are my home

I could play all day all week

My escape my everything

This, my means of therapy

This, real life, ball therapy

24 seconds on the clock

Playing reckless will I survive

But I don't care I've got the rock

My painters brush my palette wide

Feel like da Vinci in his prime

Competing only with my shadow

Dancing round potholes I've designed

Please let me stay here for some time

It may take breaking

The whole stem shaking

The hem of the flower is aching

Its waiting, the pain of patience

Is frustrating

But that's the making

The dark

Places we're made in

I've played in all the cages

Of a concrete mind, I've been the

Withered rose in the crack

On the free throw line

I've then seen the colour pour

Back into these petals

Remember to stand tall

For the sunshine

To get to you, feel

Your chin rise, and feel

The muscles mould into

What they're meant to be. The

Release, is the great remedy

And there you'll find

The best of me, the me I had to

Build from the ashes

Of my memory so burn everything

Then learn again, that's

Where the lesson is, repurpose pain

I know where to come if I hurt again

Because here lives the healing

The beautiful game