The fun of 4th of July came and went,
The world went on and I had to deal with it,
Warm fluffy crepes waiting for me that dreadful day,
Though at the moment I could not foresee what would happen later that morning,
As I stepped into the parallel universe of Flip Forest,
The smell of new carpets and dirty gym socks invaded my nose
The sight of fifteen eighty-foot trampolines and what looked like a trapeze artist had my jaw hanging to the floor,
As I watched the man twist and flip,
right at that moment,
I anxiously anticipated something at would atrocious,happen,
“Do I really want to do this?”
After my minutes of awe had passed,
I realized that I was about to try and do something I am not good at…
Stretching,
Though what these people were doing was not stretching,
These were complete tumble routines,
Splits to back bends to round offs and other fancy moves I could not even name!!!
When we finished our excruciating warm-ups we got to try the trampoline,
Though of course,
I had absolutely no idea what I was doing,
As soon as I stepped on the trampoline,
Right away I had a feeling of defeat,
It was not the flips on the trampoline that got me where I would be a month later,
It was my landing,
“POP” 
I could hear the crackling noise of my knee,
and then a crunch,
As I lay stunned on the soft landing mat the world seemed to go silent for a second,
Then I heard the director inquire me to leave the mat so the next person could start,
As I tried to stand up, a yelp of pain escaped me,
I could not move my tumescent leg,
The director of Flip Forest,
Tall,
Slender man,
He wrapped my leg up,
to the point of mummification,
Then Iced it until I could not feel my leg,
After chilling my leg and having it wrapped I was taken to the Emergency Room,
After the pain in my leg became abate,
The doctor announced that I had hyper-extended my leg
I tore a small piece of my meniscus ligament,

The nurse assisted me and helped me use the crutches
I was sent off,
I started out unsteady, tripping over myself
After a few days of practice I became very agile, 
Even though my time on crutches was evanescent,
The memory will last,