The ballerina

Lately these days

I seem to be constantly retraining.

things I thought I could do

it seems I can't.

There's the guitar.

you could spend a lifetime

just practicing space oddity

and still have work to do.

Like golf. 

an impossible game

with an absurd aim

and a beer at the end.

Like racing your car on a racetrack

not braking hard enough

not braking late enough

turning in too soon.

Like the gym

pumping that iron and doing that cardio

work on the grip, work on the reps

working on myself.

I've been swimming a km since I was 12

33 years.

I had a stroke lesson, working on my freestyle.

seems like my style was too free

A year ago

my guitar teacher rod

looked at me

bashing away.

"The trick" he said

"was to turn a footballer

into a ballerina"

delicacy.

And now I look

at everything I do 

and work out how to be 

the ballerina.