Race of My Life!

So the other day I was doing some research for my next blog topic when I stumbled upon the website for famous barrel racer, Charmayne James, formerly known as Charmayne Rodman. As I am reading the story of how she met her famous horse Gills Bay Boy aka Scamper. I was thinking about how amazing it must have been to not only have a great horse, but to have trained a horse that would lead you to the National Finals Rodeo and other big name titles multiple times. I then got to thinking about what it must have felt like when they did their first race. That’s when the epiphany happened. I had the idea to write a poem about their first race. So here it is, Race of My Life.

Race of My Life
We get to the get to the gate
Hear the music and the crowd
Sweat begins to drip off my brow
Tonight is our night
The night of all nights
Our first race
He’s ready to run, this will be fun!
Just let him loose, out like a gun!
I barely cue and off he goes
Ready for something he really knows
We round the first barrel with grace
The second with ease.
Time is running on my sleeve.
We ride the wind on to third.
Round the curve faster than a bird.
The end is near,
it’s getting clear
The day is done.
Come on scamper,
Let’s see you run,
We enter the gate with such glee
We won the round
Just scamper and me!