Cricket

Cricket was my mother.

A mother I ran into!

By chance I found you,

Hidden in a ball in the ghetto

Your milk was unnatural and nourishing.

 By 13 your reach was far.

 Scholarships!

A crown for an amateur career.

 A feat my other mother noticed.

So she let you adopt me!

I never appreciated you.

Until that night,

You became my only mother.

The day my mother withered to death.

 Cricket saved my life!