what you mean to them?
You walk all the way across campus to get to the game
Or you pay dollars upon dollars to park your car
Or you have all your friends over with beer to watch on tv and party
Or you drive to the next state to be there
You give your money to the ticket-seller,
not thinking twice to pay to watch these strangers
You buy the shirts,
the banners,
the pom-poms,
the stickers
You take your place among thousands of others
You are a number in the attendance or the viewers
If you watch or not,
it matters not:
you are just one
The game starts after the players are announced
and the crowd quiets
The team scores quickly,
then again,
then again
There is no struggle,
but the celebration is great whenever the score grows
The game ends with a win
The team is showered with praises by the crowd of strangers
What does it mean to the team?
What do you mean to them?
You leave and celebrate all night as if it is your win,
and praise them
and smile with pride whenever you recall that you are student at the same school as they
So am I
Why couldn't you come to watch us?
Why did you turn down our invitation?
Why do you give them your attention and none to us,
though we are begging?
What does this say to me?
What am I supposed to think?
Why don't you care?
What is so different?
Is it more exciting when you don't know them,
when they play so far away,
when it costs so much,
when there is no one to see smile afterwards?
We have another game coming up soon
It would be wonderful if you could come
