freefall

 

Please bubble wrap this fragile heart.

I’m freefalling. Watching the sky fawning

its love all over the dawning dayfall,

and the ground is getting closer.

I don’t want this feeling to shatter,

causing shards to pierce this soul of mine.

 

It was never meant to be, it was

just like the sunlight crawling

all over me. I could feel it

climbing in through the pores of my skin.

I was stood in dripping liquid shadows,

in a haze. Eyes glazed as I was exploring

the void inside this dazed mind,

then loves exquisite light washed away

the grey, washed away the night,

and the world exploded into colour.

 

The void was not devoid of beauty,

it was a grand plateau of imagery,

like a cosmic starscape, and in the

halo of a supernova burst I saw

the beauty of your heart, and my

eyes couldn’t look at any other.

 

I looked, I saw, I heard and I explored.

Every word your lips poured,

every insight, every slipped line,

every goodnight, every smiled hi.

Every time you layered more of your story out for me.

Every time you laid your heart on the line.

All I wanted was to lay beside

and feel every curve of every word,

like a blade swishing through the darkness

letting the light burst out.

A dawn chorus of colour.

 

I held on tightly to every moment.

Every sentence felt like an awning

keeping the sky from falling,

and to make the heart keep yearning.

I balanced on the edges of lines left

hanging

and the sight I saw flawed me.

I was unable to move.

So completely absorbed

in the beauty of you.

 

Every bunched nerve

tangled within, gripping my organs

and holding them

in a hug that could out warm the sun.

Roots all branching uncontrollably through

every part of this internal temple,

and I felt whole. Full and true.

Every emotion within tingling

and my thoughts will not stop singing.

An orchestra with a 20-piece choir

just to add to the joy, and I let them all in.

placing down welcome mats and party hats

for all who enter.

 

So. now I’m falling,

please bubble wrap

this fragile heart

before I hit the ground,

and let the sound of hope

provide a safety net

to catch any stray pieces.