Fool of a Took

I am a danger-seeker.

I am a thrill-seeker.

I am a dragon-chaser.

I am a shooting star-hunter.

I am someone on the lookout

for whatever will make me feel

more than I do,

for that which can shake me

from the doldrums.

I remember hearing about drums in the deep,

and I still threw a rock down the well.

I wanted to see

what would happen.

I wanted 

whatever would happen,

whatever could happen

to happen.

I want the doldrums to end,

even if it is a bolt through the chest

that does it.