Surf (Written when I was younger)

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I wrote this when I was ten I think... So don't be too brutal... Just wondered if someone could give me some tips so I could improve it and make it worthy

Time drifts past on the clouds above
There’s only two, it’s a clear sky
I could run and jump off the cliffs
Believing I could fly

The sand almost scolds my feet
So I can barely press them down
As we run with boards towards the sea
Where so many could drown

The waves gather strength
And tower over our heads
We could be knocked out
Wake up in hospital beds

We position ourselves towards the shore
And wait for the perfect swell
Catch it, double check
Stand when in the past we fell

There’s jagged rocks to the right
Left, a kid doing underwater tricks
An unpredictable beast surges us on
Dangerous games are how we get kicks

Sure people die doing this but not here
It’s not like we’re surfing Jaws
Round here it’s just a way of life
Amongst the rules and laws

But the only real danger, mum
Is if our hearts, with adrenaline, pump too fast
If you have a heart attack on your board
To the shore you’re unlikely to last
Oh the trees!
Take me back to London please!!!




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The last sentence of each stanza bothered me amd the second to the last stanza was sort of irritating. It's mostly just flow and wording that I didn't really like from this.



What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god -- the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!
— William Shakespeare