Attitude Adjustment

A weary group, their mood grim.
Minor injuries bandaged as
war stories are mentally logged
for opportune moments in which to
extract future sympathy. The bar's too high!
each thinks. Attempts to jump over, 
vault it, standing, running, 
complete and utter failure.
Discouraged, each toys with temptation: 
give up, 
take to the showers,
call it a day. 

Till one brave soul
puts on calypso music 
and starts to do 
the limbo.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2012