Passion And Need

Soccer is my passion and a job; my need

Split between the two, I am indeed

My dreams and passions roll with the ball

But my needs tell me to let my dreams stall

The child in me, they say, is now a man

I have now goals to fulfill and for a future plan

So right into the goals my dreams I kick

And enter the stony cages with a gait so robotic

Oh! They know not that my heart is trapped in that soccer ball

And my love and life in it is installed

But my work and needs bind me to this place

I am but a corpse with a smiling face.