Real Life Rescue

Yesterday, while walking home,

I saw some people who

Were gazing past the river rail,

But why? I had no clue.

 

Two cops were there as well and so

I looked to where they leaned

And saw the body of a man;

That’s why they’d intervened.

 

More people gathered and I learned

That he was still alive.

He’d either jumped or fallen;

No one knew if he’d survive.

 

Within mere minutes, boats arrived,

The rescue underway,

The efforts of our civil servants

Proudly on display.

 

They carried him onto a boat

Then to a nearby dock

Where an ambulance was waiting

For the stretcher down the block.

 

Up close, I saw he wasn’t young

And injured on his head.

I never learned if he pulled through

Or passed away instead.

 

It felt like watching as they filmed

A TV cop show, but

The victim, sadly, didn’t move

And no one shouted, “Cut!”