Free Verse- High Dive

My free verse poem, based on my memory of going off the high dive in second grade.

Smells of chlorine and tanning lotion float through the air.

I'm next.

The girl in front of me slices through the water in a perfect dive.

Show-off.

I step up to the ladder. Just keep going, one foot at a time.

Don't chicken out.

It's so far down. Can a person die from jumping that far?

Just jump.

No. I don't want to. It's too far, too scary.

Too bad. Just jump.

I get a running start and fly off the diving board. I tuck my legs against my chest and hit the water with a great big

SPLASH!

Hey. I'm alive. That was actually kind of fun.

Told you.

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[Acropolix]

No review with 392 views?? Come on guys! This is just embarrasing... It was a funny story!