An Athlete's Farewell

When you taste success, mediocrity eats you
Like a dull worm writhing in your lungs
Short of breath
The end of the roller coaster ride
Leaves the unsettling hunger
Of what can be

You strain your eyes
Looking far beyond 6/6
The horizons betray the vague dreams
Glistening sweat stains the track of the fallen
And you stand

Do you go on?
Do you trudge willingly
Destroying your psyche
In the pursuit of perfection?

For no one said glory was easy
And with life's cards dished out in uneven droves
And blood drying out with each second
You are weighed down by what must be
And what has

You smile, someday
You see that dreams end
A picture portrait
A fleeting moment
So yearnfully immortalized in tiny images
And battle scars
But as the climb ends
You must go down
And life goes on