The gym is dark, but noisy
suddenly a light flashes on,
and everyone goes silent
2 people enter the middle of the mat
they reach their hands together
and start weaving and dodging around
the crowd is screaming and yelling it’s impossible to hear

The buzzer sounds
and the people walk to the middle again
like dancers they move around
their dance suddenly turns into a tackle
one person is being forced to remain down on the mat
as the other uses his strength to hold him down

The referees hand strikes the mat like
a hammer hitting a nail
the match is over
the referee grabs the winners hand and raises it
for a second time stops for the loser
he takes in what has just happened
but in the time it takes to look back over the match
it's too late to fix anything
its over