Question Of Loyalty

When the question of loyalty arises its best t’ be 

fair-dinkum about what your true fidelity entails - 

Mama’s chocolate cake makes a better basis for 

deciding which confection takes first prize or am 

I being trite to the extent of letting ‘personalities’ 

decide; the game’s Rugby after all, quaintly-iced 

With regional inclinations f’ ‘urbane decorations’ 

all suitably stuffed with seemly ‘raisons d’être’ - 

Yet ignoring bases essential t’ the nature of this 

sport’s inimitably ‘Great status & Sacred origin’

The Game matters more than all colours worn t’ 

depict who’s-who on and off th’ paddock, & it’s 

Been that way for th’ millennium since then; but 

patrimony now declares who is to be your team 

Or your inheritance’s nulled - and vilified, unless 

you stand clear o’ th’ popularised argy-bargy as 

To whom is supreme; it is ‘The Game’, I declare, 

not Chieka or Hooper with the penchant t’ lose, 

Michael’s to a man, and who seem incapable of 

viewing it’s th’ sport not egotism which matters; 

Losing to The All Blacks again doesn’t better th’ 

argument f’ continuing their roles as Coach and

Captain unless we’ve decided to let ‘em resign - 

and it’d be the very best of a symbolic gesture 

© 19 August 2018, I. D. Carswell 

Following a 13 - 38 point loss in Sydney