Sunset on the water.
Rough familiar planks beneath my feet.
Flying like a heron down the old wooden dock,
soaring through the air—
Splash.
Slowly sinking,
into the deep, dark coolness.
A secret world.
My secret world.
Kingdoms of fish and smiling mermaids.
A shaft of light filters through the blackness,
Lighting the way to the soft carpet below.
My toes dig in, relishing the silky sand
before blasting off to the surface
like a rocket to the moon.
Rejoining the world with a kiss of cool air on my cheeks,
I grasp the ladder
and leap again.
Cannonball.