Was going to look for my missing watch
But just couldn't find the time
Simply no telling where my mind is going
This very strange mind of mine
Here's an ultimate groaner, my friends
I used to be a good tap dancer
But then one sad day I fell in the sink
Asked how I was, couldn't answer
D'ya hear about the crime that happened
In a downtown parking garage?
It was so damn wrong on so many levels
Heard it was a case of sabotage
With the scary approach of the apocalypse
Armageddon out of here
That's silly, whoever's coming up with these
Is more than just a little bit weird
A man had a difficult time bouncing back
From a serious bungee cord accident
Been to the dentist and I know the drill
Tells me toothaches you can prevent
Reading a great book about anti-gravity
Find it almost impossible to put down
It's floating around the living room all day
One time it bonked me on my crown
Dead batteries are sometimes given away
Free of charge I've heard
Think someones's trying to brighten my day
Now that is downright absurd
Was going to look for my missing watch
But just couldn't find the time
Simply no telling where my mind is going
This very strange mind of mine
Here's the ultimate groaner, my friends
I used to be a good tap dancer
But then one sad day I fell in the sink
Asked how I was, couldn't answer
D'ya hear about the crime that happened
In a downtown parking garage?
It was so damn wrong on so many levels
Heard it was a case of sabotage
With the scary approach of the apocalypse
Armageddon out of here
That's silly, whoever's coming up with these
Is more than just a little bit weird
A man had a difficult time bouncing back
From a serious bungee cord accident
Been to the dentist and I know the drill
Tells me toothaches you can prevent
Reading a great book about anti-gravity
Find it almost impossible to put down
It's floating around the living room all day
One time it nearly broke my crown
Dead batteries are sometimes given away
Free of charge I have heard
Think someones's trying to brighten my day
Now that is downright absurd
© Jack Ellison 2013
I just want to love
I want to give my heart to
someone
And trust that they will keep it
safe
I want to take that risk
I want to feel the rush of
wanting to be with no one else
but that one person for the rest of my life
I imagine it being like jumping off a cliff
attached to nothing but a bungee cord
anchoring you to land
You know there's a danger
You know you might not come out of it
unscathed
But the scars will be worth it
because for those two seconds
you are in the air
You feel a blissful freeing joy as
adrenaline pulses through your
blood stream awakening your
senses and opening yourself up
to an experience never felt before
I don't know if that's what love feels like
Because I have never loved nor
have I ever bungee jumped
But that's how I imagine it would feel like
I want to take that jump
But no ones there to take the
leap with me
I'm standing on
the edge
heart in my hands
ready
But all alone
Freefall
Bungee cord secure;
My eyes saccade below me,
Screaming as I plunge.
There I go; off the wall
Oh my gosh; it is so tall!
Hope I never hit the ground
Impact would be a nastry sound!
Gotta find a way
To slow my decay,
Of life drifting in a
storm tossed sea
What you say you've
come to see,
Is really not like me,
Time to break my fall,
My descent to stall
So when next I wake,
My heart will no longer ache
My assumptions I must shake,
Of them, I wonder why do I make?
The truth to appear a fake,
Not much more can I take
Sidewalk below,
I'm approaching fast,
My very next breath,
Might well be my last
Think God will provide
me with a bungee cord of love?
And catch me in time
from his perch above?
Thus to restore the faith
I know I so need,
And stop my soul,
from it's constant bleed?
I'd hike a mountain backwards,
Even if it were awkward.
I'd walk around in a fat suit
Then tell all my friends on poetrysoup.
I'd tell every other girl they smell,
Even if I would never live to tell.
I would sing you a song
And ask your parents to sing along.
I would spike my brownish-blondish hair
And sport a big smile like I didn't care.
I would go to the mall on a shopping spree
And get kicked out for jumping on all the Christmas trees.
I might whisper,"I love you" in your ear,
Then scream it out for all the world to hear.
I would go to a store and jump on the beds
Then fall off just to hit my head.
I'd jump off a bridge just because I was bored
(But not without a bungee cord).
I would perform for an audience until they 'booed'
Then go and scuff all the skater's shoes.
I would tell you this poem in brief
Just for comic relief.
I would face the winter without my gloves
Just for your smile (Just for your love).
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