Don’t read too much into it
It is a most extraordinary time
Ample alternative explanations
The edge there all along
I would have jumped
Even if not pushed
Lifted for a second
Off the ground
Light and lightheaded
Smile so wide
More than I have for half year or more
Looking back so far back
Thirty years or more
Innocence and indifference
Choices and decisions
When I thought I could have it all
Laughter bubbling up inside
And then
A moment when my stomach is left behind
As I stop....then fall.....faster and faster
Panic overcomes me
I flail clutching at hope eternal
And fall some more
Just before I crash
“Hi”
A posy
A warm feeling
I accept hope eternal
I sway on the edge again
I see the ravine now
And it is oh so tempting
