Basketball by Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr.
Aminatta Sumah From 1992- 2010 Was the best there ever was A breadwinner She averaged 2 victories in her lifetime, I’m living proof She rebounded from high blood pressure and diabetes To go on and win the respect of those she cared for A Master of the game clock While wearing the blue and white, She averaged 15 assists to the elderly in their last minutes as players on this earth And while wearing the hug and the smile She averaged even more to hurt tummies, bad days, and puberty She was the strongest coach I ever had, A mother In her last days She laid on her hospital bed Smiling, Looked onto her children as if “victory” Was stamped on our foreheads, because She knew we would champion her after She lost this fight I sat, on the sidelines of her bedframe, Eyelids peeled to the ceiling Hoping, God would descend And teach me the skills to assist from this bench, Her eyes, quenched from the well that had formed in mine So She smiled And the IV sobbed for her. A hospital couldn’t cure like the basketball court did So I left, Check ball 8
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