Pen in Motion

If I were to jump from this bridge,

would you try to catch me?

The canyon below is both bed and tomb

for those who dare to defy gravity.

Would you risk your life

to touch me one last time,

or would you stay safely on this trestle?

Such a grand expanse of concrete

and cable, man-made

and full of power and innovation.

I wonder if this canyon ever connected

before some genius engineer

dared to dream something as grand

as this bridge.

And now, here we are,

connected by someone else’s invention,

standing on

another man’s greatness.

Now what?