Funeral Poems For Rugby Players "The Rugby Player's Last Try"

THE RUGBY PLAYER'S LAST TRY

The  rugby ball inside the coffin

Rather gave the game away

As a diehard rugbywarrior

Determined to play on in future days

Believing there was more than one Hin heaven

At the ends of astral turf grounds

And that the rugbyuniverse cup

Was still in its early rounds

After a lifetime that had seemed eighty minutes

With a body clock now in the red

The gladiator scored his last mortal try

Touching his head down on mother earth's bed

Michael Ashby, Sidmouth