Falling

Falling.

 

I stare at the stranger standing before me

Why does he look so similar to me?

But also so different?

His cheeks are sunken

His eyes are hollow

And they dart in directions that are impossible to follow

 

I stand at the edge of a cliff called love

Eyes closed

Heart crying

I want to fall

But I’m scared of dying

I open my eyes and I leap

There are a few seconds of weightlessness

They feel so good

I actually pause to wonder why I was ever scared of this

 

But then those seconds are over

I plummet towards the ground

With the speed and heat of a supernova

It’s a long fall

I lose count of the times I hit the wall

I’m bruised and battered

All delusions of happiness in love

Are shattered.

 

The ground is getting closer

I think about her.

The only her who could have lead me here

I feel no bitterness

Only fear

How easy it was for me to act on impulse

For smiles and laughs and hugs

All of which were false.

The thing that hurts me the most

Is knowing that I would have been different

My exterior is marble hard

But what I felt for her was always innocent.

 

Maybe it really wasn’t meant to be

Just not our destiny

But if there was anybody worth finding out for

It was me.

 

ouY evoL I

 

Bongani Armstrong Mhlangu

Reviews

[Tai Ryens]

A bit reversed, if you ask me. This is a bit unlike to your often-wrote poems about falling in love with a person that shares no mutual feelings. Unless I read it wrong, that could always be a possibility considering it's late at night. Nonetheless, well done.