Post by shrivingbard on Mar 1, 2021 22:45:33 GMT -5
I closed my eyes and leaned back, surrendering
To the fate that would soon befall me.
My weight shifted behind
The legs supporting me and I started falling
It’s a common thing to fall,
And in those gut wrenching, brain damaging
Seconds I regret just how far I leaned
Into it
But soon I opened my eyes
When I realized that I hadn’t hit the floor.
There were no laughs or jeers
Because I was simply falling
I found myself staring into an abyss.
The ceiling stretched into an eternity
And the floor didn’t seem to be beneath me.
Where were my walls?
No longer was I hinged
To the floor by my chair and my choices
Had no effect on the infinity that surrounded me
For no matter how I scoured or writhed I couldn’t stop falling
I began to long for the floor
I began to long for an end
The sweet embrace of something solid would distract me
From this helpless creature spiraling out of control
The floor beckoned me to my sorry grave
Where the only difference was
That my arms could no longer flail
And that somehow gave me solace, instead of eternally falling
Yet I did lash my arms out
To somehow change my trajectory.
Despite the minutes and years I had spent falling
My rage could not be quelled
I continued to lean back, for the lack of support
Atrophied every muscle I had.
My mind continued to burn but my body resigned
To my bones designed for falling
With the ever spanning eternity in front of me
I found it pointless to keep my eyes open
For all that lay before me was my withered state
And even that didn’t seem to be mine
But the longer I waited for the end
Of this continuous torment, the more I knew
This penance was mine.
The once upright now is falling
My eyes opened once more out of reflex
When I saw a shadow.
A looming shadow so familiar, and yet
His name seemed to escape me
I plummeted down, faster and faster;
Speed hadn’t mattered until then
What used to be called wind billowed past
My ears as my body twisted on down
The end to my suffering was nie, and the end of all
Seemed to be coming to join it.
A smile could have crossed my
Wrinkled face had there been anything left to move it
To the fate that would soon befall me.
My weight shifted behind
The legs supporting me and I started falling
It’s a common thing to fall,
And in those gut wrenching, brain damaging
Seconds I regret just how far I leaned
Into it
But soon I opened my eyes
When I realized that I hadn’t hit the floor.
There were no laughs or jeers
Because I was simply falling
I found myself staring into an abyss.
The ceiling stretched into an eternity
And the floor didn’t seem to be beneath me.
Where were my walls?
No longer was I hinged
To the floor by my chair and my choices
Had no effect on the infinity that surrounded me
For no matter how I scoured or writhed I couldn’t stop falling
I began to long for the floor
I began to long for an end
The sweet embrace of something solid would distract me
From this helpless creature spiraling out of control
The floor beckoned me to my sorry grave
Where the only difference was
That my arms could no longer flail
And that somehow gave me solace, instead of eternally falling
Yet I did lash my arms out
To somehow change my trajectory.
Despite the minutes and years I had spent falling
My rage could not be quelled
I continued to lean back, for the lack of support
Atrophied every muscle I had.
My mind continued to burn but my body resigned
To my bones designed for falling
With the ever spanning eternity in front of me
I found it pointless to keep my eyes open
For all that lay before me was my withered state
And even that didn’t seem to be mine
But the longer I waited for the end
Of this continuous torment, the more I knew
This penance was mine.
The once upright now is falling
My eyes opened once more out of reflex
When I saw a shadow.
A looming shadow so familiar, and yet
His name seemed to escape me
I plummeted down, faster and faster;
Speed hadn’t mattered until then
What used to be called wind billowed past
My ears as my body twisted on down
The end to my suffering was nie, and the end of all
Seemed to be coming to join it.
A smile could have crossed my
Wrinkled face had there been anything left to move it