Climbing

I read of adventures enacted by some
they climb
    treacherous mountains

such ideas
     leave me numb

                they   free style
    across high barren cliffs
       bungee jump over an abyss

I freak at the thought of
the mind blowing
    effort

   danger          despair
                a half inch from death

yet life is a mountain

with nail biting climbs

Samantha Beardon