| climbing the cliff, all ready for fate and time divine powers to intervene, interfere in the mind's eyes looking, hand, wishing, hoping, a hand up, up, come, you can, you can not manage, pulling, scraping, scratching, holding the hand reaches, it's safe, it's safe in the eyes, the hand, the heart broken with effort, struggling on and on over each obstacle, up, around, exhaustion overcomes, the eye's promise not to let go, not to give way a fall, fear, terror controls, the hand reaches the hand reaches, misses and hurts, pangs of desperation falling toward the ground level with air and hopelessness and nothing hurts more than the slip of a loving hand reaching pulling hurting pulling away... |