Still Falling

Free Verse

Did you close your eyes? Did you think of them?
Memories come every year and I weep, alone and wondering
if at the top and at the end you had a fear of heights
as if the answer could make a difference.

Yet I'm dismayed to watch it again, acrophobic, imagining...
a room afire and the smoke making signals to the World
no easy means of escape, no places to hide, no exit.
Suffocated in that vision, I stay breathless trying to perceive...

Hot gasses in red eyes begging for the luxury of  fresh air
a burning window and the fall-space, coin with just one side
pieces of crystals in livid hands without time to wave
sticky blood warming fingers in a last cold morning.

And I weep, helpless and thinking in what you saw from above
that pandemonium of alarms, yelling and the sound of the fire
just an instant to decide how to face it, how to accept it
an instant in which you may comprehend our brevity.

Perhaps, you could say goodbye... Did you have time?
Did you close your eyes? Did you think of them?
in their faces, their eyes, their voices, their scents...
Behind, below... inside...Death, waiting for your decision...

And I weep for your innocence... for your panic...for you
I'm with you now, terrified... yet, I can't follow you...
But you drag me and I jump with you, as every year
as the only way I can remember you...feeling you, being with you ...

And I weep...recoiling to that morning that will live in infamy
in its intense impact, in those... images
Because the towers disappeared in its collapse
but you, through the years, ...you're still falling...

Reviews

[Raul Moreno]

A sad reality, this piece is heartbreaking and leaves an echo of loss. Nice work, your descriptions are layered nicely...Raul

[GuineaPig]

amazing- nice flow. great job!

[segrk th,zey]

man this is intense. i really like it.

[NightsShade]

Nice flow. I'm wondering though, is this based off of something real. I sorta felt like you were venting some feelings that you've pent up. Great work, I enjoyed this piece, it had a mysterious atmosphere to it.

[Luna Northstar]

Wow, this is... this is amazing. The words, the flow, great job....