From a collection of poems I wrote for a mens health magazine when they were featuring mid-life depression:
I stand at high altitude
Dwarfed by the majesty of mountains
On a rocky ledge
One step away from a thousand foot plummet
Into the broken bones and death of nature.
Just one more step.
I am alive and free.
A naked cruciform.
My entire body alive with tingling goosebumps.
And from each issues an invisible filament
Flung out to attach to an anchor of my surroundings.
Step by step.
I imbibe the world in ecstasy.
It is sensory overload and I am inebriated by it.
But I cannot stop this globe spinning me
Within or without
Unless I take
Just one more step.
Suzanne German
scary stuff – potent and sharp and scary…so real so well put – brilliant!