boom y’all

Division is a diving board

above an Olympic sized swimming pool of unrest.

An engine fueled by fear

propels it up the ladder’s rungs,

and the water in its shoes squelches with each step.

The feet are slick but steady as they climb anyway and

the tension in the crowd is building as they watch The Diver climb

slowly, steady and with great care.

It’s eyes are closed and blind

and the air freezes solid

as it makes it to the top, the decision point.

The world stops breathing momentarily

all eyes on The Diver, what will it do?

At once someone coughs and the whole place just explodes.

Everyone in the room starts talking to themselves at full volume,

forgetting the spectacle before them and

It dives.

It is freefalling, graceful and hilarious at once

with a concussive smacking sound which echoes beyond the room

through the hallways of the rest of the school.

Silence, as the last drops of water from the splashdown drip to the floor

off of the bodies in the crowd.