I Don'T Like Heights

Breathtaking views the brochure said. But for me it was nothing but a sheer drop, gravity's worst nightmare lipped on an edge and way below, a brutal landing of hard rock. I don't like heights. Up here I have the lot, a panoramic view offering no distraction to what really waits for me salivating beneath my jellied feet. Just a step away, nothingness wells its hypnotic horrors, a free fall into the minds worse fate, flailing limbs frantically reaching for something firm to hold onto in thin air. Just think of it ! The last few seconds of life bulleting downwards towards oblivion. No, I don't like heights. I prefer to take my views without a precipitous ledge, closer to the ground, then if I fall it would be less likely to be terminal and I'd have no time to think as I went down.