Olympics

Olympic Great

We jump, we run and leap up high

We dive, duck and fence and punch you in the eye

We pass the ball and lift the weight

And wait with baited breath to leave the gate.

They win a bronze or silver or gold

And we will remember the records held until we are old.

I might take up fencing or maybe the javelin is for me

Then again, I pass on the baton across to the three.

Every four years I think I will take up a sport

I know that I should, I know that I ought.

I admire the fitness and the dedication of the team

I aspire to the commitment just dreaming the dream.

Well done to them all, every one who attended.

Well done everyone one striving with sinews extended.

Maybe I will exert myself and say that I tried

Or maybe I’ll take a rain check as it’s raining outside.

I could get gold for sofa surfing late into the night

Enthralled as I watch our Olympians with futures so bright.

You jump, you run and you leap up high

I duck and dive, sit on the fence with my bleary eye.

I’ll pace myself and take four years to get in shape

For another settee race, cry to the anthem and a medal drape.