Dsw: score a goal

Each day I rest my hands upon the wall

After being teased by my friends in the hall,

They say I can't play football

'Cos I am too small.

They haven't seen me play before

So I wonder why they say “I can't score?”

I made a bet beside a store,

I must score, this I swore.

The date was set, the day came, I must show them what I've got,

I walked onto the field, I had this feeling, this panic that I might not score,

This made my legs tremble - my boots felt hot,

Then.... I remembered I swore to score a goal before four.

This was my entry to @winarobert | @wolfgang-alpha 's dsw show.. The theme was about "anxiety". I took my thoughts to the commonest anxiety found in peer groups especially in rivalry or bragging rights of football. The appraisal I received on my entry was encouraging, the host and audience felt it was incomplete, I should have added more lines to the piece about me scoring that goal. I wanted something short, maybe next time... I'll make an entry that scores a goal. To be honest, I don't know why my fingers stopped writing at that point.
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_{photo credit: @jacobite}