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I set myself up to fall again.
Only this time from greater heights than usual.
I knew the unfortunate truth when we met.
I brought this failure upon myself.
I walked out onto the tightrope knowing there was no net,
knowing the consequences of putting my heart on the line,
knowing what has happened each time I have in the past.
And each time I journey back out onto the wire the net gets smaller.
I chose to venture onward and take the risks I knew were so great.
I made it rather far in comparison to past episodes,
but as always, I have fallen from these heights, now higher than ever before.
And as I near the hard earth below, I think of all my past trips down from the wire.
This one will be the hardest as the net has been depleted by all my previous mistakes.
And I fall closer trying to brace myself to the breeze as I fall in slow motion
with just enough time to think that it really wasn't such a waste of time after all.
I still had the chance to know you for as brief a time as it was.
And I will crash with some semblance of a smile
until I inevitably walk the rope again
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