Photo: Jan Hellriegel
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“Life is a series of victories and disenchantments. Once you embrace the disappointments your triumph will be greater.” - Jan Hellriegel 2019.
SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR
It's a little bit like winning the Sportsman of the Year.
You’re only 12 you've got big feet and you're a girl.
Or you've amassed a great idea and some old dude tells you off
And calls you a big-headed fool.
I may no longer be pretty or unusually thin
But what I do have
I never give in.
Jan Hellriegel performing at a Women's Festival in1986. Photo: Jan Hellriegel
It's not that the road you take is long and hard
Or along the way you get dealt some hard cards.
You shuffle them around till the purpose and the pain
Form a wave so high you can surf any terrain.
And you get getting on.
And one funny day you realise the reason
It takes so long to get served at the bar
Is because you're no longer young or fair.
And birthdays signify a new sexless age
Where you redefine how you learn to behave
As everyone looks through you now.
I may no longer be pretty or unusually thin.
But what I do have
I never give in.
It's not that the road you take is long and hard
Or along the way you get dealt some hard cards.
You shuffle them around till the purpose and the pain
Form a wave so high you can surf any terrain
And you get getting on.
The princess years don't last for ever and
Your time in the sun only lasts so long.
So use it get your act together then
Jan Hellriegel Photo: Kendal Simich.
Keep on...
You can keep on getting stronger.
You've got that light, let it shine girl.
These are your power years
Go on and take them.
There's nothing to fear
Just go on embrace them they're yours.
These are your power years
Come on and move with them girl.
Take it all, take it in
And just assume that they're yours.
These are your power years
Come on just shake the tree at them.
In the night, in the morning
In everything that you do.
These are your power years.
These are your power years.
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