Chasing Sharks
A voice said to me
At a quarter to three
While I laid there in the dark
If you want to survive
Plus stay alive
Then learn how to chase a shark
How could that be
With the likes of me
Who works at an amusement park
For I never swam
Beyond the big damn
So I was afraid to embark
But on the next night
I flew on a kite
Which carried me out to sea
Right into the brine
Where the sharks dine
And there was no way to flee
There in my pj’s
And to my dismay
I waited for my destiny
Yet at home I awoke
It was only a joke
But it needed a remedy
So I took out a book
And by hook or crook
Learned how to catch a big fiend
Coz I thought anyway
I’d have only one day
To use the lessons I gleaned
And by nighttime
At the midnight chime
I was in the sea as foreseen
In no time at all
A shark had the gall
Thinking I was there to assail
But I turned the table
Now being able
And now I was chasing its tail
By learning the skill
Going for the kill
As I became an orca whale
Now at each full moon
I’m in the lagoon
Awash in my undersea tale
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