Mistakes

No one is perfect

We all make mistakes

Some are bigger than others

Like the college football player

Who scooped up the ball

And ran the wrong way

Not just a little, but a lot

Fifty-eight yards is a long way

To run the wrong way.

And I thought

Here’s the first college football

Game of the season and look

He’s already made his mark

On national TV

Sorry.  Not sorry.

So don’t whine to me

About sending a stupid text

Or two or twenty.

Or forgetting to return

A library book for six months.

Yesterday’s mistakes

Are tomorrow’s lessons

If you play attention to them.

And besides,

Did you run 58 yards the wrong way

On national television?