Out of the Game by Michael Ceraolo

Michael Ceraolo is a 61-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had two full-length books (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press; 500 Cleveland Haiku, from Writing Knights Press) and several shorter-length books published, and has a third full-length book, Euclid Creek Book Two, forthcoming from unbound content press.

Out of the Game

This is a story of baseball:

most here played,

                           though

not all played in the majors;

others of us were involved in the game

in different peripheral ways

Some of us achieved fame

Some achieved shame

Some were between the two extremes

Few of us are remembered nowadays

Some of us stayed in the game in other ways

after our playing days were over,

                                                 and

all of us are out of the game now,

permanently,

                    yet here

we are able to have one more say