Vs: Adonal Foyle - The Forgotten Star
Kaikki kauniit tarut päättyvät aikanaan. Jokaisella suhteella on haikea loppunsa. Joskus mestaritkin lopettavat. Nyt on sen aika, sillä Adonal "Beast From Tha East" Foyle on päättänyt ripustaa lenkkarit viimeisen kerran naulaan.
Facebookista lainaten: "Adonal Foyle: I have decided to retire from the NBA today and wanted to say thank you all for your support over the last 13 years."
Idoniliani kunnioittaen, hänen toiveensa huomioiden, laitan tähän Adonalin laulun koskien hänen lopettamistaan ja suhdettaan koripalloon:
Love Song to a Game
How should I tell thee goodbye?
What can you say about a love affair
to rival that of Romeo & Juliet?
This is not just some melancholy ode
to a hackneyed love of mortals.
I found our love deep in the entrails
of the Caribbean Sea.
Love that swept me to a land
where our embrace became mythical.
You showed me a world
that few have dreamt of.
Colgate's golden steeple, a sojurn
where ancient teachings flooded my mind.
There in the Chenango Valley
where 13 sang my soul to flight,
basketball laid siege to my soul.
I do not cry for the passing of our love
for it stands radiant while my brittle bones
crumble through swift time.
I have known you by so many faces;
I will spend my end of days recalling.
You have infected so many with
the allure of riches and black gold.
But I am not angry with you my love.
For to a boy who was lost in the bosom of nothing
you gave hope and home.
Like the flickering of a light
we come and go without much fuss.
So I leave you to fend off seekers,
hoping they too will cherish
your unyielding countenance.
As for me,
I will forever live in the glare of your loving embrace.
From time to time I hope you will look in on this pitiful fool.
I will miss brothers of a quilt struggling with burning lights.
If I offer advice, pierce beyond the glaring lights
and see the faces behind the wall.
Don't be fooled by the magicians' nibble fingers.
For this is a life with mirrors and screens.
Its only truth lies in the understanding it will all end.
The sound I will take home
is the symphony of thousands of screaming friends.
Warriors, Magic and yes, Memphis too,
I sing you praise, hope, blessings,
Flowing from a boy's songs of thanks
to you and you and you,to all I knew.
Please stay my "immortal love."
Adonal Foyle
Kiitos 13 vuodesta, olen kasvanut ihmisenä, miehenä ja koripalloilijana sinun oppiesi mukaan ja taitosi tunnistaen. Kiitos.