The High Rope Walker

The crowd watched in breathless silence as the walker made his way across.

It was a gale, twenty-five mile an hour wind which is even stronger at his locale.

As he stands tenderly on a small wire affixed between two skyscrapers more than seventy-five stories high, each.

In his hands, a wooden stick used for balance it’s nearly twenty feet long.

This stands as his sole assistance against the wind and his minuscule walkway.

Underneath him, nothing but a large experiment in gravity, should he fall the 800 plus feet to the cold asphalt below…

-AAA 08/27/2024

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