If you are into swimming, you should know
That a great white attacked a man offshore.
He dove in from his boat, and to his horror
There was a great white waiting down below.
But our diver did not show fear.
He told the shark: “You are not welcome here.”
And just so that his point would be clear,
He poked its snout with his fishing spear.
He backed against a reef and stood his ground,
Though that shark must’ve weighed a thousand pounds,
And every time it tried to come around,
He poked and poked and poked it in the snout.
The shark, he thought, mistook him for a seal.
He almost became that monster’s meal,
And only his resolve and strength of will
Had gotten him alive through that ordeal.
But there’s another angle to that story:
A shark was swimming though its territory,
When suddenly, without saying: “Sorry,”
A man fell in and scared off its query.
The shark was puzzled by the whole affair;
Such an occurrence was extremely rare
As far as it knew – humans needed air.
It wondered what the man was doing there.
But every time it swam up to find out
The human rudely poked it in the snout.
This human was aggressive. No doubt
It’s best to warn the other sharks about it.
With its pride injured and it’s snout sore,
It dutifully went about its chore,
And now all the sharks around know
A human has attacked a shark offshore.
Copyright @ Julie Deshtor 2014
Julie Deshtor 