falling faster

and suddenly I'm falling.
right out from under me the ground has up and disappeared.

this disappearance was reported a long while back,
but each day is as worse as the first.
some impressive ideals once held my heavy feet
yet now they soar freely losing altitude in a hurry.

while smoke drifts away into a night sky barely lit by a crescent moon
a busy mind is assembling the pieces of fractured words.
mending shocked memories
temples abuzz with fragments and the thought of loss

and so I run.
I gain speed. I can't see my feet in front of me.

I'm getting faster.

it's whatever you want. whatever you need.

if I were to separate and divide my being into quadrants.
if I were to sever emotions and glue memories together.
if I could describe again, I would describe the blossoming
of a fourth of life. the coming together a lifetime of extinguished hope.

but it's hope that persisted in this dormant life form.
and springing forth in spring with a beautiful duty.
a hunger to serve another and above all care.

in an instant we've built a home to weather storms of every frequency.
in a blink foundations have been set and settled.

like magnets pulling and pulling and pulling
I find myself being pulled.
and pulling.

and with brilliant light centered on shut eyes
we've been absorbed and enlightened into
what is and what shall be infinity.