Marching Band
Now we could all go into a debate about
Whether marching band is a sport or not
But we’re not
Because everyone in marching band knows it’s a sport
And those who aren’t don’t get a say in it
Simply because they have no clue how hard we work
But enough about that
Marching band is …
Everyone breathing together
Knowing what everyone will do
Being completely in sync with one another
It praying the flags don’t hit you
Hoping the judge won’t be near you
At the one spot you always miss
Being forced to deal with stress
Whether yours or someone else’s
In marching band …
We are a single unit
We must all be in time
No one out of step
Keep with the tempo
Learn to hate the continuous clicks
Of a device sent to torture us
In marching band we learn …
To fear when the directors make music changes
Or worse …. Our dot positions
That water and sunscreen are gods
Especially in the Texas sun
That even if there’s a bee on you … don’t move
In marching band we force ourselves …
To wake up early and stay up late practicing
Two weeks before school starts
To not give up even when nothing is going right
To deal with the props no matter how much we despise them
Awake after hour long bus rides so we can perform our best
For the people in marching band …
We are all one big family
If someone messes up we’ll all do it again
We help each other get ready for competitions
we provide for each other when we forget something
Even if we don’t win, we’ll keep pushing to do better
Those eight minutes can be the best or the worst moments in our life
We know we left everything on the field
In our family …
We will stand by each other
You will have support for everything
We understand that large problems aren’t the only ones
We will help each other with everything no matter how small
Marching band is many things
But most of all
It’s the feeling of everyone’s desire to succeed
It doesn’t matter where you come from
In marching band
We succeed as a family