I was gonna name this 'The Five Minute Poem' but it took me almost seven. Here is proof that everyone is different, if by some strange chance, proof is needed. My inspiration was Robert Frost's “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” No, really. My alter-ego, Herman, was involved. I can't help it, he's always there. If you proceed, you must be ready for anything.
WTF
Sometimes things may come to pass
with such fury, one might ask,
"Had I needed some refresher
of mortality, or class?"
Just yesterday came a reminder.
A girl walked, I was behind her,
On my way to my day job,
Carrying my lunch, and binder;
It was such a lovely day,
I felt good; life was but play,
Considered I my strength within
And took great strides while on my way.
And as I strode, I felt yet stronger,
Striding thus, I could no longer
Walk behind the girl I followed
At last, I passed, I moved to conquer,
Moving quickly 'mongst the crowd,
Like an armored tank I plowed,
Through the thronging people there,
my power un-matched, I allowed!
Now I must add, I touched no one,
I cut none off, was having fun,
'Twas just adrenaline that flowed
A river of it; thus, not one
Could halt advance of one so bold,
so dashing, yes, with might untold,
and yet I felt no inkling
Of what would shortly, there, unfold.
For onward came, on speeding bike,
A large male student, feeling like
his mount was a ballistic missile,
The sidewalk was, to him, the pike,
He must have thought it was a race,
As he advanced at blist'ring pace,
'Twas urgency, not malice there
Upon his strained and youthful face.
The speeding kid could not get past
Another striding forth that fast
At right angles to his journey,
And totally knocked me, on my ass.
Lying still, it just felt prudent.
I'd seen no advancing student
What I saw was naught but stars.
Felt great before, but now I doodn't.
Poem's over, metre blasted,
Lying here, I'm body-casted
Feeling like it'd been a truck.
And I'm thinking,
"What the fuck?"
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"doodn't", quite the pome there!
That you for making me chuckle, Ken - and sincerely hoping you'll have a speedy full recovery