Tag

We were playing tag

Someone else and I

I wasn’t it

Missing the oh so close

Touches of you to me

Just out of your reach

Circling around the tree

Over the hydrant

This side of the fence

Laughing all the way

Almost that time

Ran into the street

From between the cars

Forgot to look both ways

Or the one way needed

Was clipped

By a speeding car

Tag I’m it now

Tossed into the air

Tumbling tumbling

Taking forever to land

HARD

Skidded far

Into a twisted heap

A human pretzel

Head facing upwards

See the speckles of sun

Through the leaves of the trees

This game is hard

Drifting off

So that was it

Did I win