"silly me!"

[goldenrod]

Silly Me!


Silly me! I'm all at sea,
lost among the sharks!
I took a swim to find out if,
the dog-fish really barks!

I know the goldfish
isn't made of gold,
and the cat-fish
never does..."meow!"

But I was deep thrust
into my cups, and thought...
"They might all
have learned, somehow"!

I looked around and soon found,
companions sleek, and grey.
A chill of sorts
displaced my shorts,
as they eyed me,
in that certain way!

Sobriety, it came in a flash!
Safe haven, did I seek...
But I saw naught for miles around,
and my prospects, they looked bleak!

I kept as still as ever I could,
I did not thrash around.
Though trembling in my inner-soul,
I did not make a sound!

One shark swam up
and nudged my legs,
another bumped my head.
Yet I floated, quite flat and limp,
pretending, I was dead!

I did not know if that would help,
if they would even care,
For they might think, dead or alive,
a tasty morsel there!

So I closed, my one good eye,
and waited for the end.
Sure that within no time at all,
to heaven, I'd ascend!

Then a sudden loud and angry voice,
into my awareness sank.
"Hey you down there,
you bloody great fool,
Get out of our porpoise' tank!"


goldenrod.

[Sweets America]

You really have talent to create these poems with good rhythm and rhyme, and this one was funny! I really enjoyed it because it made me think of myself and the way I feel as I am passing through life. Curiosity, disappointment, letting go.