Big Butch Barks Back: Single Sport

BIG BUTCH BARKS BACK

Created for some of the more raw and painful aspects of growing up different. Sometimes angry, sometimes funny, always honest. Sometimes, the language is very harsh because pain is not gentle.

I am determined to chronicle all aspects of living with absolute candor and genuineness. It allows a connection with others at a deep soul level because they see that you understand their struggles when you reveal your own. If you are offended by cursing or expect the beauty you see on my other blog, Whisper Creek, then you may want to avoid this one. This is the very human side of me, the one God plainly sees. It is the part that God is healing. Let that be my witness.

Friday, September 10, 2010

Single Sport

I'm a bit under pressure

feel the heat, feel the steam

the times are gettin' heavy

and their gettin' very lean.

What was once a team game

is a single sport now

and I wonder how to make it

got to make it somehow.

But I gotta say its lonely

gotta play all by myself

so I pick up the ball

and I put it on the shelf.

And I sit in the silence

once I heard you, heard your voice

but I won't be defeated

by your stupid fuckin' choice.

Though these times they really hurt

I won't fib, I won't lie

ain't no worse than I been through

I will do, or I will die.

So in the silence of the evenings

in my head the game is played

and I go on undefeated

cause in my heart I have prayed.

Big Butch Barks Back