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[aid] => mick
[title] => Tears for Her Fan
[time] => 2006-07-05 08:57:10
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[bodytext] => The Tears for Her Fan To: My special fan She warmed up for the game Knowing she had a special fan Sitting in the crowd But when she spiked it during warm-up She heard no cheer In her fan’s voice All the comments out together Couldn’t amount to her fans cheers The voice she needed to hear They passed the ball to each other She did it worse than normal Straining to her fan’s voice The whistle blew The game started She played front row We served it They passed it back She blocked it half-heartedly When she rotated to the back row Her voice wasn’t as strong as normal Her fan’s voice still missing Right after the opponent’s call for a time out was completed Her eyes stung with tears As she looked into the now blurry crowd She wiped her tears away Fighting the new ones Knowing her fan hated to see her crying Her mind pretended to hear the voice Her fan’s voice But it wasn’t real She played correctly for awhile Until she realized that voice That voice wasn’t real She missed a few serves But they still had the lead But she didn’t care She hit the ball gently The ball suddenly looking like her heart One she didn’t want broken The end of the game cam so fast Her team cheering Over their victory When she was dismissed She lifted her stuff that felt like 100 pounds Her body seemed so weak She walked through the doors Her head hung low She didn’t look at people’s faces But when she heard a voice The voice she had strained to hear Then she looked up His face was there Glittering eyes and everything He apologized for not being in the crowd He hadn’t been let in She felt bad for doubting him For letting her team down She was able to tell him they had won But not that her heart was in it And she felt her heart sink She felt tears come too fast and they fell down her cheeks He wiped them away and felt bad But she told them they were tears of joy And that she wanted nobody else [comments] => 1 [counter] => 172 [topic] => 14 [informant] => Gwyn [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => DreamsandWishes )
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