Out on a Ledge
(A Mountainous Misadventure)
You’ve provoked me out upon this ledge
and forced me to survey the edge,
but I’m the biggest coward of all,
fast-forwarding to view the fall!
My eyes scroll over far below
the distance that I’d have to go
if I were to tip myself
off this narrow mountainous shelf.
That edge looks crumbly to me,
and instills in me a need to pee.
The sun’s rays swell into a fire,
that well may be my funeral pyre.
My buzzing brain shows lack of trust.
A throbbing heart dictates I must
be off to flee this place I hate.
I just remembered a previous date!
Get me out of here real fast,
or this date will be our last.
When you said we should get high,
I didn’t know you meant the sky!!!
I keep telling myself I’m going to stop doing these, but they are irresistible. The words for The Sunday Whirl Wordle this week are: provoke ledge eyes rays scroll need throbbing buzz fire hate trust fall
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
I seem to remember your fear of heights mentioned in the past~! Well expressed~!
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I do have vertigo.. You are right. Not to an extreme, but there are many roads I’ve seen on the internet that I would refuse to take!!! In China and the Himalyas.. and some in mountains in Mexico if they are single-lane with a big dropoff.
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Excellent poem Judy
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That was very entertaining. Yep, it would be a real long fall!
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Don’t stop. 🙂
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Hope you don’t mean I should jump!
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Don’t stop! These are wonderful!!!
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