Without Losers There Wouldn'T Be Winners

Her mum and dad they often told her that the road to success can be tough And that winners receive the big ovations and that second place not good enough And she believed in their philosophy that 'tis not good enough to compete That every time you finish second you swallow the bitter pill of defeat. As a young athlete she was brilliant she always finished in first place And in the National junior 200 metres final she ran perhaps her greatest race The fastest teenager in Australia and she dreamt of Olympic Gold But she may have peaked that bit early she was only sixteen years old. She trained hard but could not run faster and few other races she won By the girls she had beaten at sixteen at seventeen she was outrun Her Olympic dreams were in tatters and success seemed much further away And she opted out of athletics when at eigteen she called it a day. Her parents so often had told her and she took in what they had said That winning is only what matter and by their advice she was led She only could smile as a winner and she could not cope with defeat And in retrospect she has learnt that by her attitude she was beat. Her daughter who has just turned fifteen is now a young junior athlete And her advice to her be happy what matters most is to compete Without losers there wouldn't be winners and if you don't win lose with grace And run for the pleasure of running you too are a part of the race.