because it’s not a cheesecake

I couldn’t breathe in water

or run to save my life

I couldn’t ride a bike

without giving my foot for offer

At 27, I couldn’t fall, and I cannot still.

 

So here’s my design for a gift –

to myself, and to me alone.

Here’s my offer

for the decade to close.

 

A 21kilometer between my name

12 laps (in a pool of any shape)

a ride on a bike that moves, for a change

and fall, and fall and fall again!

 

And if this is what really awaits…

here I come, the third decade!