I almost died

I almost died when I was young 

My mother saw me fall

Tumbling, rolling down a hill

She could have lost it all

With teary eyes

„You could have died“

It hit me like a bolt

Made me think about my death at only six years old

At 8 I almost drowned at a pool

Played it off, I acted cool

Never did I reach the end

Or trust myself to swim again

Three years later, skiing wild

Fell a metre, crashed my spine

Couldn‘t breathe a single breath

Until my friend came, helped me stretch

Suffocating in the snow 

With friends around, what shameful show

I almost died that very day

Were it not for Patrick‘s grace

Some avoid mortality 

because they never met her

Darkest thing I‘ll ever say

The earlier the better

And now they‘re making fun of me

"He never goes in the water“

„I almost died“ i almost say

I never truly bother

For every child has fear of death

But often doesn‘t know it

Two friends of dad lost one of theirs

And his became a poet