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Free Fall

Too high.  
Air too thin to breath.
Narrow, crumbling rock under foot,
Heels hanging off the disintegrating edge,
She refuses to look down.
 
Arms wheeling madly,
Eyes clamped tightly closed,
Determination to remain aloft,
Struggle to balance on the precarious perch.
 
Body glistening from head to foot,
The sweat tracing every curve and every edge,
The salt stinging her raw wounds, red and angry,
The body’s own moisture turning her last foothold to ice.
 
She is going to fall.
She knows it is inevitable.
Still she fights this with everything she has.
She knows with terrible certainty He is standing behind her.
 
He could pull her back.
He could sweep forward and bring her back.
He could scoop her up, cradle her trembling body and carry her down to safety.
Instead, He steps forward and with a single finger tip extended, silently tips her over.
 
The fall is terrifying,
Clawing fingers,
Screaming,
Body outstretched trying to take flight.
She falls past barriers,
She falls beyond polite discretion,
She falls through the expectations of the day,
She falls and lets go,
She wails and she sobs,
There is no stopping the fall now,
She is undone,
She is spent,
Falling.
 
She falls through rage, pain, disappointment and shame,
She watches them sail past and clutches at them,
No possibility of catching them,
No slowing the descent,
She is falling.
 
With finality, she opens her tiny hands,
Faces the ground and releases the last threads.
Threads suspending her,
Marionette wires.
She chooses,
She falls.
 
She is free.
She is peaceful.
She has accepted.
She embraces her fall.
She gives over to the free flight.
She closes her eyes in blissful rest.
She loses all sense of time and space.
 
She opens her eyes to find His.
Her limp body in His arms.
She has indeed fallen.
He has caught her,
Yet again.
Written by Poetic_License (Aka Fierce_N_Fiesty)
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