Sunday, January 12, 2025

We Are All Falling (Poem)

We Are All Falling

This I found
The best poems start
With a feeling of falling
Whether I write or read
The same is true
The bottom drops out
And I go through
Hopefully
The poem will catch the fall
I find that falling is a good place to start

What if you’re already falling?
Before the poem starts
What then?
I’m falling all the time now
I don’t know what to do

We think of the future
As a place we step into
As a door we walk through
We walk forward, with confidence

I’m afraid
We don’t move forward
A trap door opens instead 
A door in the floor
We fall
From one minute to the next
So used to it
The fall feels like life
Every minute
Whether we stand or walk
We are falling into the future
What can we do?

Here’s what they say
Don’t look down
Just don’t look
Here’s what I say
Fear not
Jump

June 2020   North Andover, Mass.

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