Orion

Drip

Exhaustion in the form of sweat…

Dripping from the tired body of an athlete

Standing on the rough, sparkle-black tape

Of a skateboard in the air

After being white marked

From the shoes on the feet that popped, flicked, and leveled out

Into the six feet of space from the ground up

That only seemed to grow larger by the second

Until that second is divided in half then in half again

Up to the point where one steezy kick flip felt like a lifetime…

A life time of five seconds

That in my head felt like five years.

Oh how I wish there was big blue foam pit to save me,

But there’s nothing to save me now

Except doing what I came here to do

Which is to land the trick that only can be landed

With the cooperation of the tired body of an athlete,

Dripping with exhaustion in the form of sweat.