it's work like this

[Bronte]

Actually, if you saw Ted when he first started and now, that poem doesn't seem so Hallmarkish.

That would be cool to run into a lightening bolt!

wouldn't that be "one leg stools"?

nearest I got to being hit by one
was the width of the road. BAM.
never saw it coming, WOH!
was all I said. I think
I have had near calls
on every form of death. It’s as if
I'm reliving every death I have gone though
and wondering how in hell it ends this time.
all I know it will be painful
it always is letting go.

And this is the kind of poem where I am at odds
with reading similes. They are part of the narrators
story voice It is expected. Also expected but never used
is the "hums" and ahh's that so many people use when
needing thinking time to express a point of view. Would be
interesting to see it done well in a poem; not by me but!
I never stop to think when I open my mouth..
some might have noticed