You May Be A Marvelous Champion

You may be a marvelous champion and your fans in large numbers may grow A sporting hero of your hometown the one everyone wish to know You are the person of the moment the sporting icon of the town But as good if not better than you have been beaten and in the popular stakes have dropped down It is known that you do feel conceited but for this fan adulation can be to blame For the greatly admired it is hard to be humble it is not a humbling thing fame When you are one who is celebrated and your praises the fans love to sing Defeat can be ego deflating and a very humbling thing Eventually the best are beaten for fleeting the physical prime All champions grow slower and older everyone does fall victim to time We are like the deciduous trees of the Summer that lose their beauty to the Fall Of time we all do become victims for it does take care of us all And though you may be a marvelous champion heroes do come and do go For time the thing that does rust iron eventually becomes everyone's foe