Who Am I

For Kerrys Thursday Challenge #1

Who am I just some superman

Keeping you from falling of the cliff

Seeing all you dizzy children

All I do is sit and wait for accident to happen

Someone fall off the edge

So I can be useful

Sitting on the hill below

I was just your lonely superman

Sitting here and waiting for a time

A time where I can shine

And maybe save a life

I must catch the falling children

Who weren’t paying attention to the cliff

And forever they will remember me

As just some superman

Author's Note

"Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

Reviews

[Kerry O'Connor]

You have taken a hard look at the role of catcher, the uncertainty, the boredom and the possibility of being saviour.

I was just your lonely superman
Sitting here and waiting for a time
A time where I can shine...

These lines sum it all up.

Thank you for entering your work in the Thursday Challenge #1

[Brad]

this captured "catcher" completely! i held my breath throughout