The first pitch well may be a strike, that’s true.
The second pitch may then become Strike Two.
But these two pitches don’t decide your fate.
No matter how you count, it’s not too late.
But now there is the danger, facing haste.
Please pardon when I say it—haste makes waste!
The “cool and calculating” adage plays
In any circumstance, in many ways!
For if, in this instance, you make an out,
You will be up at bat again, no doubt.
That pitch that struck you out, you’ll see again;
You know this, but this time you welcome when.
© Richard Williams