WHEN YOU PUT YOURSELF OUT THERE

When you put yourself out there
You turn into a field football with no owner
Many a leg will share you in a manner unfair
And play you till your air blasts into a thin corner
So beware

II
For there are some who want to score you for their goals
There are some who will want to hold you near their poles
There are some who will want to play you into a foul station
And there are some who will want to dribble you to attract an ovation
So please beware

III
There will be some who will want to play you to burst
There are some who will want to bath you with dust
There are some who will want to watch you being played
And there are some who will want to act commentators to your being played
So just beware

IV
Some can just place on you a bet
Reducing your humanity into a game pet
Some will just love to cheer others
As they cut into your leathers
Oh beware

V
For the field of fame
Is nothing but a puppeteering game
You get played and receive the blame
Should something soil your name
So beware
Just beware
So as not to be destroyed on a field
Whose park, immortality wields without a shield
All it takes is your fall
For another to step into your shoes in the lightening hall
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © July 29, 2021