LJ Idol - Week 3 - Brushback pitch

This one damn near killed me. I wrote three different things, and hated them all. This one, I hated the least. (Also, it's 7:33, and I have few options left).

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Sometimes it’s easy. You’ve got your eye on the ball, your heart is calm, your breath easy.

Sometimes it’s a struggle. You let your eye wander, your heart is high, your breath comes in little gasps.

And sometimes it’s just not your day. You lose sight of your goal, your heart and head pounding, your breath is totally gone.

And the words fly past, racing, spinning, so brilliant they make you flinch away, make you shiver from their perfection. But you’ve missed the moment, and the words keep flying past, unreachable… and every time you try, every time you attempt that perfect phrase, that ‘bon mot’, every time you create something so close to almost good enough, you know that the next word, just at the tip of your tongue… Would be so much better.