March Poetry Challenge (23rd March, 2013)

Excitement

Do you see it, do you see it?

Over there, not far away.
It’s clear across the farmer’s field
But I see it clear as day.

I can feel my heartbeat quicken,

The anticipation of what comes
Fires up the imagination
And stirs every fibre of my being.

I want to run on ahead

But my parents call me back.
Do they not understand me?
How can they be so calm?

Can you hear it now?

What sound was that?
Surely it can’t be …
Surely they didn’t!

It’s a cacophony of sounds

And mind is racing through them
Loud and shrill and confronting
Before we’re even there.

The smells have reached my nostrils,

Sweet and rotten both entwined.
The popcorn and the animals
Confuse my poor little nose.

We’ve finally reached our destination

And the curtain is swept back,
Revealing the rings and ringmaster
Under the spectacular circus tent.