Toronto Football Club

Red and gold they’re our men

They’ll defeat Chivas or nobody can

Fighting in the corners

Running down the line

No offsides, no terror of losing

Though it’s all on the line

For #TFC is fearless

They’ll give it their all

For their fans are behind

Them all the way

Game face on

We support the #Reds

Our love for our team

Cheers for #TFC

Jeers for the enemy

At  every  game.

©Sheilagh Lee September 21, 2014

No Bloody Big Deal?

This poem is just my opinion as a disgruntled TFC fan. 

From YouTube the announcement 

No Bloody Big Deal?

Strumming our pain

With lots of firings

No coach, no underlings

Gone with the stoke of a pen

Ryan Nelson has departed 

Dafoe will leave?

Bradley next?
We wait and see

What bloody big deal?

The Brits aren't spitting out their tea

They're saying told you so

Didn't I say it wouldn’t last?

They turn to their mate 
And demand 

You owe me a fiver
After all

What do Canucks know?

About football?

It seems all we're good for
 is filling the seats
So we cheer who cares?
Not the MLSE 
Just pay your money and go
They don't want your opinion
They'll do as we please
After all it's about the bottom line

Toronto fans crying in their beer
Wondering

Where is the bloody big deal?

 We all were sold?

Why do they always

Take loyalty for granted

Why betray the fans?

We’re hoping for playoffs

Instead we get sackings

Tears and emotional pain

Is there a chance now?
The battle cry

Because the playoffs are 

The bloody big deal

For unwavering loyalty

Toronto FC fans

Portray, all season
Bleeding red 

Till the last game

We'll cheer them on
And feel the pain
As the season ends

©Sheilagh Lee  August 31, 2014

Remember Me

Twenty years how can it be so?

Twenty years without your smile

Twenty years without your advice

Twenty years of tears, that still come and go

Twenty years how can it be so long?

I miss you sis, your smiling face

Your advice that sometimes annoyed me

I miss your steadfast loyalty

Your warrior heart that beat so fast

And your kindness that came shining through.

Dear sis, remember me from heaven above

Because I 'll always remember you.

©Sheilagh Lee March 25, 2013

Down The Rabbit Hole

Down the rabbit hole I go,

Falling, and spiraling, into pain

Relentlessly it captures me

The flame igniting, burning, bright

It knows no restraints, it knows no limits

It gives no quarter, as it continues its conquest

Wooing softly, then cascading noisily as it seizes

It’s quarry with infinite force

Tightening on me in knots, and waves

Burrowing, kneading, into every joint

I fight with all my might

I want to scream and cry, and shout

As the throbbing goes on, and on, and on

No relief in sight, the pain increasing

Still continues cumulatively

Like a snowball it grows bigger

Sleep eludes, and lingers on

The edge of pain

The climb out of the hole

So deep, I cannot creep

But only hope it stops burrowing

Takes a break, and goes away
Tomorrow, I will creep out of the hole
It will not defeat me.

© Sheilagh Lee February 22, 2013