Spent a lifetime hanging off a ledge

Ah,rebellious spirit wanting space
With my finger on the map I paced
I climbed Helvellyn, fell off Striding Edge
Spent a lifetime hanging off a ledge

Meanwhile our kind teacher twittered on
Thomas Hardy, Hopkins., we were numb
She never mentioned she saw my escape
The way the nuns  hurt me, the bitter rape

I slipped  on High White Stones and almost  dropped
My feet were dangling off the  fearsome rocks 
No-one knew for I was climbing last
Know me  please but never learn my past

How quickly life has  run since I could climb
Now I merely sit here draped in rhymes

2 thoughts on “Spent a lifetime hanging off a ledge

    1. The first stanza came to me when I was wriging a letter so I sent the letter.Then I realised I could make it into a poem.Thanks so much fpor your comment Syd.When I was 16 I nearly did fall of a rocky mountain side.
      The other intriguing thing is I just wrote that letter without thinking but the verse had a meaning.That was my life for a long time.So not thinking can be good,Katherine

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