If Tiger Woods Can't Play Golf

A Hope that Life Doesn't Change with Tiger Woods Accident

If Tiger Woods can't play golf and hurt,
who will the teens admire?
Mutant turtles or English wizards
and how will that get them off the couch?

If Tiger Woods can't play golf freely,
we'll all need to learn another name,
like Phil Micklesen or Kenny Perry,
and the ad campaigns will all have to change.

No more Nike golf balls perched on hole's edge,
No more chips out of sand into cups,
No more casual chips onto greens,
with Tiger Wood's easy grip on the club.

And who will stand up straight and tall,
pointing down the endless lawn,
and inspire us to take time off work,
And play strategically instead of as a pawn?

Let's hope that injured at thirty-three,
isn't one more case of terrible trouble
in these times when a hero can help
to remind what really matters to us and he--

the willingness to try and work hard
when faced with life's many ravaging wolfs.
To stand for the hopes of perfection
is Tiger Woods gift to us all when he golfs.