Life is Like A Track Meet
My life is like a track meet
And my mind is the team
So many different parts
Working at different events
All striving to achieve the same goal
There are the throwers
Trying to make it as far as they can
By calculating angles and strength
There are the horizontal jumpers
Taking the leaps of faith
Hoping that their skill will carry them far
There are the distance runners
Knowing that sometimes slow and steady wins the race
And there are the sprinters
Who know that sometimes it doesn’t.
There are hurdlers
Who can get over any obstacle
There are the pole-vaulters
Who don’t mind having help getting to the top
There are the high jumpers
Who will do it by themselves.
Each team needs a coach
To keep them all together.
My life is like a track meet
And my mind is the team.
Schoolwork requires throwers
Love life requires horizontal jumpers
Dinnertime requires distance runners
Timed tests require sprinters
Tough times require hurdlers
Planning the future requires pole-vaulters
While looking to it requires high jumpers
But still each team needs a coach
To keep them all together
Like a team works together to win a meet
My mind works together to life live
Because life is like a track meet
And my mind is the team.
And my heart is the coach
Keeping them all together.