I'll Jump

When I was a kid

Just a skinny kid

We would summer at the shore

Since I was afraid

I only would wade to waist high and nothing more

Never over my head

But choosing instead

To see the bottom below

I was safe I was sound

Feet on the ground

No threat from the undertow

But one day this boy who was older

Threw me over his sunburnt shoulder

And to my surprise and my shock

Tossed me off of the end of the dock

And I swam

Fear replaced with the thilling taste

I would not soon forgot

What a crime to waste more time

Than never get wet

So I vowed to the blue skies above

Next time I wont need a shove

I'll jump

I'll jump

When I was 16, barely just 16

My great uncle came to town

A gourmet of note who researched a cookbook of some renound

There was page after page

Of saffron and sage

The spice of a life he had led

Tales of places he'd seen

Sampled cuisine would fill up my teenaged head

So that June he made a suggestion

In the form of a simple question

Would I like to go sail the seas

Feast in trinidad, dine in Beliz

I said yes

Suitcase packed yet still I lacked

The nerve to explore

Fear prevailed

His ship set sail

But I stayed on shore

I had forgotten the lesson once learned

Next time if the chance returned

I'd jump

Better safe than sorry

Is no way to play the game

It's rather sorry that safe leads to nothing

But more of the same

So here I am now

This is me right now

Perched upon this hotel bed

My only desire

To somehow aquire

A blueprint for what's ahead

I could keep my routine

A life that's serene

With comforting guarentees

Or go out on a limb

And take a swim

In deep and unchared seas

I have learned that life is quite fleeting

And mistakes waste your time repeating

Since the gain could outweigh the harm

And we all know that three times the charm

I will jump

Fear replored I will jump on board

And go for the ride

I'll be strong and if I'm wrong

At least I'll have tried

Life is meant to be lived on the edge

Ths time I wont fear the ledge

I'll jump

I'll jump

I'll Jump