I walked upon earth a man in all my incompleteness — My X-chromosome broken like Adam’s rib.
Create music, art, business, governments
She said — you will never create life.
So under my oppressive virility She remained, the apotheosis of creation —
A wildfire caught in a cage.

Before you this world was flat, and I would walk back and forth, edge to edge, wondering if the fall off would hurt. There were days spent at waterfalls watching water pour into the black abyss, my feet dangling dangerously close to what I assumed was the end.

As it goes, the day we met you pushed me.

And as I turned hoping to grab onto anything that might stop the fall, you jumped, filling my arms, wrapping yours around me.

We fell into oblivion.

When you fall you forget about time. Engulfed by a moment alone in the cradle of gravity.

To fall for a lifetime is to forever live in a single moment.

And forever I have fallen for you.

Sometimes we have the flaw of seeing everyone else's.

Caught in the repetition of remembering you.

A house fire with no way out
but a second story window.