Taking One for the Team

By Sara Holbrook
We practiced together,
sweat and stained.
We pummeled each other
and laughed off pain.
Teams may disagree,
may tease,
may blame.
Teams may bicker and whine,
but get down for the game.

You had my back.
We fought the fight.
And though our score
was less last night,
we're walking tall.
Our team came through
and stuck together like Crazy Glue.
I'm proud to say
I lost with you.
 

Copyright Credit: Sara Holbrook, "Taking One for the Team" from Weird? (Me, Too!) Let's Be Friends. Copyright © 2011 by Sara Holbrook. Reprinted by permission of Highlights for Children/Boyds Mills Press.
Source: Weird? (Me, Too!) Let's Be Friends (Wordsong, 2010)