Thin Ice

I walked the straight and narrow; took a flying leap of faith. I staked the risk of seven lives. She asked me for an eighth. I gazed across the frozen pond she wanted me to cross. I weighed the possibilities, the profit and the loss. I judged it a feasible burden, and so I abandoned a wise friend’s advice; I filled my pockets with rocks as I prepared to cross thin ice. I walked the straight… I staked the risk… I gazed across… I weighed… I judged… I … I