Notes About The Poem

One of my dearest friends completed suicide in 2018, jumping off a building. Years later I tried connecting the sense of freedom I felt cliff jumping into a quarry when I was a child, and melded the two together. Written in 2021.

Dichotomy of Freefall

Summer soil melded 
between bloodied feet. 
There is gravel stuck 
between bone and soul
 in their arch. A curve, 
a signature that belongs 
to an individual, it is
yours and only yours. 
It leaves a mark on that cliff 
where children beat the heat 
to feel gravity’s sobering pull. 
Water is the safety net, 
some simply wish to go from
Sixty to one hundred percent. 
Maybe then there is freedom.

I think I know how it felt 
when he left scuffed marks
and solemn remarks. 
There was only shoeprints and
concrete. But there was also a 
cracking of a shell,
and water flowing from its dam. 
Who am I to blame a man 
that wished to feel
freefall forever.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2024

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Yochanan Avatar
January 3, 2024 at 12:31 AM
As I read, I saw a glimpse of a night. Then, a humble ray of moonlight took form of a Diwata and said, "Pitiful. Yet again, life has led another to fall." You're poem is very captivating! It was Beautiful.
Kelly Avatar
January 8, 2024 at 4:28 PM
thank you so much for the kind words and for the enchanting quote! i hope you have a wonderful day
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