Aim High For Your Goals

Tommy was now finished with the fifth grade in school and it now time for his summer play
He ran home so fast that afternoon and threw his backpack on his bed and put all his school things away
There would only be one game and toy he would play during these days at all

His favorite game of basketball and his favorite toy would be his ball
Next year he would be old enough he had to brave and practice just to try out

 He was so small and also wore glasses this it gave him so much doubt
Basketball he played at home and with his friends all the time as a crew
But bigger kids would laugh at his size and be so unkind to him too

In his home he had only one parent and it was his wonderful mother
 His dad left when he was a baby and he did not have a sister or brother
He had heard people say that you can not miss what you never had
So to have only his Mother never made him in any way sad
She was his best friend in all this world and then beyond
He knew they would always share a very special strong bond

He knew to play basketball you had to be good and have speed
Even all the bigger and taller kids this they still did need
He practiced and practiced even harder this summer long
Then asked his mom if him trying out would be wrong
She told him that the greatest revenge is to accomplish what others say you can not do
We will do this together and be very brave just me and you

So the day was here it was now basketball season
When he got to the gym he turned to leave but mother reminded him his love of the game will be his reason

So out in the Gym he played the very best that he could

If he made the team or not the next day is when  knowing if he would
That night he could not sleep for hoping so bad
His one special dream of playing ball was all he had





So the next morning off to school him and his mom did go
To see if his name on the list it would show
To his amazement Tommy's name was on the list
He had made the team and in his eyes came a little mist
In front of everyone he did not care who saw him run to his mother
And thanked her for believing in him more than any other

Brenda Everhart-Perryman 11/22/2011