One game
one shot
one moment
one chance
once change
everything falls apart.
Adrenaline pumping, heart pounding, lungs collapsing, muscles weakening.
The score is tied and your playing defense and the girl tries to drive and you block it and as you come down your heart suddenly stops beating and your body weight sifts to shield your bones from the impact.
Tearing
Pulling
Pushing
Cutting
Stabbing
And in this instant
Your world falls apart
Unable to use one leg you run dragging it behind and u get the ball and you shoot what should be your first 3 pointer of the season but instead its your last.
You make it and everyone cheers and you breakdown
over,
everything you've worked so hard to achieve is over
all in an instant.
Like the impact of a car crash
the words of a bully,
it hits you.

Your broken.