Learning How To Skate Again
It all started yesterday
went to the skating rink,
I haven't skated for years
back then, I didn't stink.
I used to be a good skater
then, there it was yesterday,
smooth ice laughing and taunting
tried to keep my fear at bay.
I took to the ice carefully
like a child hanging onto the railing,
made it over halfway around
then I fell, I felt like bailing.
I dusted myself off and got up
after that itty-bitty trip,
I landed on my back
and knotted up my hip.
I didn't stay down long
I was back up on my feet,
still hanging onto the railing
wasn't going to let myself be beat.
My legs felt just like jello
went around the rink again,
not now, but sometime soon
the ice WILL be my friend.
Copyright Cynthia Jones
Nov.18/2015
I haven't skated for about 20 years or more. I was actually terrified to get back out on the ice. I might have taken a spill, but I got back up and went on skating nervously.
Copyright © Cynthia Jones | Year Posted 2016
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