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the final goal

March 18, 2024
By Soph_groulx BRONZE, Toronto, Ontario
Soph_groulx BRONZE, Toronto, Ontario
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This is it it's all we get just one shot

No second chances shall it be our year?

A whistle tweet like a bird wakes my ear

As it calls me to battle in my spot

Just you and I same battle  just one shot

Like gladiators covered in our gear

Sticks in hand everything ends and starts here

One will fail one will prevail for the shot

Ba bang ice hits my face like little blades

I failed no no get up the times not run

I rise and the puck flys to my sticks blade

I’m off just you and I I shoot ba brung 

A sound so sweet I collapse and fade

It's a goal my final goal now im done.


The author's comments:

This sonnet is about a hockey player's final goal at the final game of the season and her journey to that final goal mentally and physically. When she scores the goal it signifies the end of the game and the end of the season. They won but it's the end of the players time with this team, the end of this dream that is a hockey career. It's time to move on and grow up. As for many girls once your minor hockey career was over, so was your hockey career. Until now, many girls have had to let that dream go.


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