Circus

How many times have you ignored
those tall transmission towers
Pyramids of electricity
Tied to each other
with taut cables, cables which are still
as still as the wind allows them to be
The dancing birds try to create havoc
but the cables stay firm
How many times have you wondered
that those cables could create a tightrope
A tightrope for you to walk on
A trip round the world
Tower to tower
City to city
Country to Country
It would be like connecting the dots
A tightrope around the world
A journey along the earth's rotation
in perhaps less than 80 days
Hey don't be scared to lose balance
Just walk with your head held high
If you fall just whistle for the dancing birds
and they'll swoop down and pick you up
Restore you to your position
And your nerves of steel act on that tightrope
would continue
Unfazed, you would walk ahead.

If life was a circus
that would be my act
In a glittering leotard
I would tip toe along the cables
moving ahead, on the tightrope
circling the world, no safety net below
Just another day
Just another leap of faith.