Where Had His Mind Gone?

There we were playing,

Playing a match,

Playing against a team,

A team I used to play for

I knew them all.

Then came the game,

The game that saddened me

Against a friend,

A friend I had not seen,

Not seen for a while.

Onto the lawn we went

And started to hit the balls,

But it was so sad.

This man I knew

Was different,

He was confused,

Confused about the game,

The game he had played forever.

A very good player

Who had beaten me,

Beaten me in the past,

But he was not the same.

His mind was confused

I had to keep correcting him.

Yes I beat him,

Beat him easily,

But this was not the man,

The man I once new.

What had happened to him?

Where had his mind gone?