Agony of a Gymnast

 

 

Helplessly, delicately, tearfully she toppled from the beam.

How penetrating ABCs "Agony of Defeat"!

Not in the courage of the loss, but in the ordeal

of he who suffers witness from distant bleachers —

at a loss to commiserate in the privacy of locked arms.

Copyright © 2008 Richard R. Kennedy All rights reserved. Revised: Aug 19,  2008.

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