The Ferris Wheel.

“Come on then!” said my cousin;

“Let’s go on this one”

There was me young and vulnerable

With my elder cousin, enjoying this fair

I had been having a great time;

Trying to pick up floating ducks

With a loop on a stick as they went around

Gently, in this circular pond

Would I get one and win a goldfish?

I wanted the man to dip into the bowl

And pull out a fish, just for me,

But no not this time, maybe next.

What about a coconut, you can have three goes

For one of my treasured threepenny bits.

One – Nearly got it! Only missed by an inch

Two and three, hits!  Must be glued in the ring!!

“What about the Ghost train?”

Have you seen the faces of those people

Who have been on it!  They look scared to me!

I’m having none of that!

“Come on then!” said my cousin;

“Let’s go on this one”

There it was this slow moving wheel

That became my Nemesis

So I went with him, on this monster

Sat on the wooden seat

The man put the bar down in front of me

But It’s OK I can still get out.

Then it moved, up towards the sky.

It’s not too bad, but up and up it goes,

I look down and see these shrunken people

Walking around the ground with no apparent care.

The wheel is coming to it’s zenith,

It stops!!

What’s happened, it’s broken!

I’m scared, so high up in this world

My cousin tries to comfort me;

Or was he laughing?

The tears of absolute fear

Trickle down my face.

It moves again, they’ve fixed it

But then it stops again!

“Fix it! Fix it! Fix it!” I yell

It starts to move again.

Down we go getting nearer the earth

Until at last we reach the point

Where we got onto this monster.

It doesn’t stop!!

Around it goes again and keeps on stopping;

I do wish they would fix it, or stop where

I can get off, but no, round it goes again,

Passing where we should run from this thing.

At last, through all the stopping and starting

It stops for us and crying, shaking and scared

I get off this machine, giving hateful looks

Back at it, this monster called Ferris Wheel.